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‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]

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IDF fired on World Central Kitchen workers April of 2024 so this, sadly, isn't surprising. At least more and more video is, finally, coming out vividly capturing these atrocities.

And one of those WCK workers was in fact a rifle wielding Hamas member who had participated in Oct 7th.. as well as an actual bonafide WCK worker. Admittedly blowing up the entire van was probably wrong in retrospect.

Oh wait, except that's not true.

Retired Maj Gen Yoav Har-Even described how the IDF's drone operators mistook an aid worker carrying a bag for a gunman, and then targeted one of the World Central Kitchen vehicles with a missile.

The IDF then described how two people escaped that vehicle and got into a second car, which was hit by another missile from a drone.

The military confirmed that there were survivors from the second explosion, who managed to get into the third vehicle - which was then also hit by a missile.

By the end, all the aid workers were dead.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68742572

Agreed that bombing the 1st vehicle of aid workers was a mistake. Then bombing the 2nd vehicle was a mistake, and the 3rd vehicle bombing was also a mistake.

Re: ‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Hamas is a terrorist organisation, the IDF is a state. Of course the state should be held to a higher standard than a terrorist organisation, this is not me excusing what Hamas have done, but if you start justifying a state's actions with "a terrorist organisation has done the same" where does that end? US state actors hijacking and crashing a Russian passenger jet into the Kremlin?

So you don’t recognize the state of Palestine?

Re: ‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]

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post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hamas is a terrorist organisation, the IDF is a state. Of course the state should be held to a higher standard than a terrorist organisation, this is not me excusing what Hamas have done, but if you start justifying a state's actions with "a terrorist organisation has done the same" where does that end? US state actors hijacking and crashing a Russian passenger jet into the Kremlin?

elected by the people of gaza with support from the population.

If you’re a citizen of the United States in particular, you might reflect for a moment in where this line of reasoning might lead.

Re: ‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]

#134

IDF fired on World Central Kitchen workers April of 2024 so this, sadly, isn't surprising. At least more and more video is, finally, coming out vividly capturing these atrocities.

And one of those WCK workers was in fact a rifle wielding Hamas member who had participated in Oct 7th.. as well as an actual bonafide WCK worker. Admittedly blowing up the entire van was probably wrong in retrospect.

> And one of those WCK workers was in fact a rifle wielding Hamas member

As far as I know this was the result of the IDF's own investigation so there's some conflict of interest

Re: ‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]

#135

IDF fired on World Central Kitchen workers April of 2024 so this, sadly, isn't surprising. At least more and more video is, finally, coming out vividly capturing these atrocities.

When they accidently shot those three hostages escaping that should have been the moment more people realized all this talk about acting on intelligence was just marketing.

Hind Rajab being used as bait to murder aid workers was kind of a tell also.

Or when they bombed all the hospitals [0], or targeted pediatricians and oncologists, and their families [1] for assassination.

Or leaving preemie babies to rot and be eaten by wild dogs at Al Nasr [2].

Or when they dropped over 6 Hiroshimas worth of explosives [3] onto an area roughly equal to a 12 x 12 mile square, populated with over a million children - in Biden's term alone.

There's a lot more. Suffice to say that anyone paying attention has known that the US, Israel, Germany, England and more have been propping up a genocide for quite some time now.

0 - https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/countrie...

1 - https://abcnews.go.com/International/gaza-pediatrician-mothe...

2 - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/abandoned-babies-found-de...

3 - https://www.bradford.ac.uk/news/archive/2025/gaza-bombing-eq...

Re: ‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

And one of those WCK workers was in fact a rifle wielding Hamas member who had participated in Oct 7th.. as well as an actual bonafide WCK worker. Admittedly blowing up the entire van was probably wrong in retrospect.

> And one of those WCK workers was in fact a rifle wielding Hamas member As far as I know this was the result of the IDF's own investigation so there's some conflict of interest

That turned out not to be true.

Here's the latest Wikipedia entry on the event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Central_Kitchen_aid_conv...

Re: ‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]

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post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hamas is a terrorist organisation, the IDF is a state. Of course the state should be held to a higher standard than a terrorist organisation, this is not me excusing what Hamas have done, but if you start justifying a state's actions with "a terrorist organisation has done the same" where does that end? US state actors hijacking and crashing a Russian passenger jet into the Kremlin?

elected by the people of gaza with support from the population.

The last election there was in 2006.

Re: ‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]

#140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When they accidently shot those three hostages escaping that should have been the moment more people realized all this talk about acting on intelligence was just marketing.

On the other hand - when Israel struck the parking lot of that hospital a couple of weeks ago everyone was so confident that the IDF was lying when they said that there was a command bunker just underneath the entrance of the hospital. Not only did that end up being completely true, but the IDF killed Muhammad Sinwar in that strike. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/world/middleeast/gaza-hos...

That doesn't exonerate anything, though. It shows Israel's willingness to put innocent lives in harm's way to plug potential future threats before they form. Threats they are overwhelmingly capable of deterring during transit, urban warfare or border conflicts.

The doctrinal violence against civilian infrastructure (Dahiya doctrine) and the deliberate homicide of hostages (Hannibal directive) are inexcusable no matter how many military brass it kills.

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