7 World Central Kitchen Volunteers Murdered By IDF
An IDF drone, fired three missiles, in succession, indicating 3 separate kill orders, murdering seven World Central Kitchen Volunteers -- two dual-national Palestinians (U.S. and Canada) and five citizens of Australia, the UK, and Poland.
The IDF claims it thought a person in/on the truck was identified as a terrorist, because they claim an armed person was ostensibly on the truck.
According to Israeli sources, that armed man did not leave the warehouse. The cars travelled along a route preapproved and coordinated with the IDF.
At some point, when the convoy was driving along the approved route, the war room of the unit responsible for security of the route ordered the drone operators to attack one of the cars with a missile.
Some of the passengers were seen leaving the car after it was hit and switching to one of the other two cars. They continued to drive and even notified the people responsible that they were attacked, but, seconds later, another missile hit their car.
The third car in the convoy approached, and the passengers began to transfer to it the wounded who had survived the second strike – in order to get them out of danger. But then a third missile struck them. All seven World Central Kitchen volunteers were killed in the strike.
"It's frustrating," one of the defense sources told Haaretz. "We're trying our hardest to accurately hit terrorists, and utilizing every thread of intelligence, and in the end the units in the field decide to launch attacks without any preparation, in cases that have nothing to do with protecting our forces."
The strike is not the first incident in which World Central Kitchen staff were wounded in Gaza. On Saturday, an IDF sniper fired at a car headed to a food warehouse in the Khan Yunis area. He hit the car's windshield, but the volunteer inside was unharmed.
I'm sure the IDF will investigate, just as they did for the previous gizillion incidents. Is the IDF trying hard to prepare its drone operators for a future career in US inner city law enforcement?
The IDF claims it thought a person in/on the truck was identified as a terrorist, because they claim an armed person was ostensibly on the truck.
According to Israeli sources, that armed man did not leave the warehouse. The cars travelled along a route preapproved and coordinated with the IDF.
At some point, when the convoy was driving along the approved route, the war room of the unit responsible for security of the route ordered the drone operators to attack one of the cars with a missile.
Some of the passengers were seen leaving the car after it was hit and switching to one of the other two cars. They continued to drive and even notified the people responsible that they were attacked, but, seconds later, another missile hit their car.
The third car in the convoy approached, and the passengers began to transfer to it the wounded who had survived the second strike – in order to get them out of danger. But then a third missile struck them. All seven World Central Kitchen volunteers were killed in the strike.
"It's frustrating," one of the defense sources told Haaretz. "We're trying our hardest to accurately hit terrorists, and utilizing every thread of intelligence, and in the end the units in the field decide to launch attacks without any preparation, in cases that have nothing to do with protecting our forces."
The strike is not the first incident in which World Central Kitchen staff were wounded in Gaza. On Saturday, an IDF sniper fired at a car headed to a food warehouse in the Khan Yunis area. He hit the car's windshield, but the volunteer inside was unharmed.
I'm sure the IDF will investigate, just as they did for the previous gizillion incidents. Is the IDF trying hard to prepare its drone operators for a future career in US inner city law enforcement?
