Did Israel deliberately target the aid workers?

José Andrés, the boss of World Kitchen finds it implausible that this could have been an accident.

"This was not just a bad luck situation where, 'Oops, we dropped a bomb in the wrong place,'" Andrés told the Reuters news agency, stressing that his team's vehicles were clearly marked and "it's very clear who we are and what we do."

"They were targeting us in a deconflicting zone, in an area controlled by IDF. They, knowing that it was our teams moving on that road... with three cars," he said, adding that he believed the seven aid workers killed by the strike in Gaza were targeted "systematically, car by car."

"The airstrikes on our convoy I don't think were an unfortunate mistake," he told Israel's Channel 12 in a separate interview. "It was really a direct attack on clearly marked vehicles whose movements were known by everybody at the IDF."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-gaza-world-central-kitchen-strike-jose-andres-direct-attack-aid-workers/

But wait: this makes no sense, right? Israel is doing all of this to get Hamas. Israel is an ally and cares about human rights?

It would make no sense at all if those were actually the war aims. However, if you think (as I have since the start) that Israel's aim is the full depopulation of Gaza, then targeting aid workers is entirely consistent with that. The diplomatic pressure put in Egypt to take refugees, the indiscriminate targeting of civilians, the destruction of hospitals, the restriction on even the American military's relief efforts... It all points to one thing: making life in the Gaza Strip so intolerable that none of the two million people can live there.

Most people in Gaza are close to starvation and now less food is getting in because civilian aid workers are terrified of being taken out by and IDF missile strike. Sure, targeting people who are citizens of allied countries gives you a diplomatic hit but they have got away with everything else so far, so why not push things a little further? Some people will still believe them and Western politicians can go on pretending.

Our governments are still giving Israel, money, arms and diplomatic cover. How many more people will die before that changes?

MethDozer · M

It's way too hard to think it was just whoopsie given the training, technical superiority of Israeli weapons, isreal's previous actions and words, and the entire historical documentation of Benjamin Netanyahu's aims and goals.

We know he supported funding HAMAS with the intention of destabilizing Palestine and leading to this exact scenario to give an air of just cause at eliminating Palestinian occupied land.

Is it possible it was an accident? Slightly, however this is just as problematic as it being intentional since it shows a clear lack of concern and a "Kill them all and let God sort them out" game plan

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@MethDozer I don't believe it's even possible to make this mistake.

Yea, the IDF is definitely trigger happy by marked cars in the demilitarised zone? Two missile strikes after they called it in?

It's a bit like when Pregozhin was taken out by Putin. After that, he went on Russian TV with a heartfelt story about a national hero being lost to a tragic accident. Nobody believes him but it's a performance he has to go through. The IDF are not looking for people to believe them, just the tiniest tenability of plausible deniability.

MethDozer · M

@Burnley123 Oh I agree but it's still just speculation at the core. So I won't make any absolutes from my armchair.

I don't feel well need to anyway. Any possible scenario on how this happened leads to the same basic premise of Israel planning to eradicate.