IDF Drone Bombed World Central Kitchen Aid Convoy Three Times, Targeting Armed Hamas Member Who Wasn't There - Israel News - Haaretz.com

IDF Drone Bombed World Central Kitchen Aid Convoy Three Times, Targeting Armed Hamas Member Who Wasn't There - Israel News - Haaretz.com FM: John Whitbeck writes: While all Israeli explanations/justifications for slaughtering people in Gaza merit extreme skepticism, Israel's explanation/justification for "unintentionally" (according to Prime Minister Netanyahu) killing the seven World Central Kitchen aid workers, as reported in the HAARETZ article transmitted below, merits careful consideration. According to the "defense sources" cited by HAARETZ, Israeli military decision-makers thought that they saw an armed man (hence, a suspected "terrorist") on an aid truck which entered the WCK food warehouse with the three cars carrying the WCK aid workers. When the three clearly marked WCK cars were not accompanied by this truck when they left the warehouse, the military decision-makers, on the off-chance that a possible "terrorist" might be in one of the three cars carrying the aid workers, decided to kill everyone in those three cars, firing three missiles in succession as temporary survivors fled from one car to another car. Such a decision is, of course, consistent with Israel's past explanations/justifications, widely accepted in the West, for destroying entire apartment buildings in which Israel suspected that one person associated with Hamas might be present. However, this new explanation/justification for this new slaughter reflects sufficiently badly on the self-proclaimed "world's most moral army" that it just might be true. It is worth noting in this context that many Palestinian aid workers, including 175 UNWRA aid workers, are among the roughly 40,000 Palestinians confirmed killed by Israel since October 7 or presumed dead under the rubble. The clearly intentional killing of five "white" Western aid workers has, unsurprisingly, attracted much more attention and aroused much stronger emotions in the West than the routine killings of mere Palestinians.