Israeli soldiers who relied on Waze blundered into a deadly firefight
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Israeli soldiers who relied on Waze blundered into a deadly firefight
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Re: Israeli soldiers who relied on Waze blundered into a deadly firefight
#2That's a somewhat misleading headline.
From the article:
Agence France-Presse quoted a Waze official as saying the device setting to warn about areas “dangerous or prohibited for Israelis to drive through” was off.
“In this case, the setting was disabled. In addition, the driver deviated from the suggested route and, as a result, entered the prohibited area,” the official told the news agency.
Re: Israeli soldiers who relied on Waze blundered into a deadly firefight
#3That's a somewhat misleading headline. From the article: Agence France-Presse quoted a Waze official as saying the device setting to warn about areas “dangerous or prohibited for Israelis to drive through” was off. “In this case, the setting was disabled. In addition, the driver deviated from the suggested route and, as a result, entered the prohibited area,” the official told the news agency.
Or just maybe, militar personnel ough to rely on their government's reconn/intel reports instead of using customer grade apps that were never designed for wartime usage.
Re: Israeli soldiers who relied on Waze blundered into a deadly firefight
#4Also, a Palestinian was killed in the turmoil.
Re: Israeli soldiers who relied on Waze blundered into a deadly firefight
#5That's a somewhat misleading headline. From the article: Agence France-Presse quoted a Waze official as saying the device setting to warn about areas “dangerous or prohibited for Israelis to drive through” was off. “In this case, the setting was disabled. In addition, the driver deviated from the suggested route and, as a result, entered the prohibited area,” the official told the news agency.
Yes, the content of the article seems to contradict the headline. Isn't it the opposite of the headline? Soldier who ignored Waze ended up in a dangerous firefight?
Re: Israeli soldiers who relied on Waze blundered into a deadly firefight
#6That's a somewhat misleading headline. From the article: Agence France-Presse quoted a Waze official as saying the device setting to warn about areas “dangerous or prohibited for Israelis to drive through” was off. “In this case, the setting was disabled. In addition, the driver deviated from the suggested route and, as a result, entered the prohibited area,” the official told the news agency.
Or just maybe, militar personnel ough to rely on their government's reconn/intel reports instead of using customer grade apps that were never designed for wartime usage.
Wait, are there military "Waze" deployments? That'd probably be pretty useful, yes? In addition to the routing information, a military could have an "enterprise" Waze that contained a bunch of intel marked on a map based on reports from the field.
Re: Israeli soldiers who relied on Waze blundered into a deadly firefight
#7Remember kids, stay away from the refugee camps created inside your country.
Re: Israeli soldiers who relied on Waze blundered into a deadly firefight
#8I can't even get them to update the app to include high wind reports, much less "people are shooting at us!"
Re: Israeli soldiers who relied on Waze blundered into a deadly firefight
#9That's a somewhat misleading headline. From the article: Agence France-Presse quoted a Waze official as saying the device setting to warn about areas “dangerous or prohibited for Israelis to drive through” was off. “In this case, the setting was disabled. In addition, the driver deviated from the suggested route and, as a result, entered the prohibited area,” the official told the news agency.
Also:
"It remained unclear how the soldiers could have stumbled into the middle of the camp, sandwiched between Jerusalem and Ramallah. To reach Qalandiya, the soldiers would have had to pass by the so-called separation barrier and through an Israeli checkpoint."
Something seems fishy here. The lines following it do not convince me we got the whole objective story:
"In the camp, they were “stormed by a mob of people with rocks and molotov cocktails,” Lerner said. Their jeep was blocked from turning around and caught fire. The soldiers fled in separate directions.
One of the soldiers had a mobile phone and within 30 minutes was located by several backup units of soldiers and Israeli police. The second soldier was found an hour later in the vicinity of an Israeli settlement."
Two soldiers from a non-combat unit get stormed by a mob armed with stones and Molotov cocktails, their car catches fire, but they survive until relieved 'within 30 minutes' (presumably, that's at least 15 minutes later)? I find that hard to believe.
Re: Israeli soldiers who relied on Waze blundered into a deadly firefight
#10Also, a Palestinian was killed in the turmoil.
Is driving a single vehicle into a camp enough of an offense to warrant Molotov cocktails? It seems like drawing the attention of the Israeli military is not something the average refugee would want.