UNICEF convoy hit by gunfire as it tries to deliver aid in Gaza, 9 days after fatal attack

[David__77]

A UNICEF convoy was hit by gunfire Wednesday as it tried to deliver aid to northern Gaza, the latest in a series of violent obstructions faced by aid workers in the enclave.

"The incident has been raised with relevant Israeli authorities," UNICEF said in a statement. "Sadly, humanitarians continue to face risks in delivering lifesaving aid."

…

“We were waiting there when gunfire broke out." Ingram said. "The gunfire came from the direction of the checkpoint toward civilians who then ran away from the checkpoint. And the gunfire hit us."

She said three rounds hit the car where she was sitting. The mission had been authorized and the Israeli authorities knew about the convoy, Ingram said. After the shooting, Israeli authorities continued to delay the convoy and it eventually was forced to return to Rafah.

…

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/israel-hamas/2024/04/11/israeli-war-updates-gaza-hamas/73285789007/

[TheRealNorth]

1. Even if they allow aid trucks in.....

Kill a few more aid workers and Israeli regime knows that most aid organizations won't want to try to go in and deliver it.

On another note, it's interesting that Tim Kaine came out and said that Netenyahu has been playing Biden like a fiddle. According to Kaine, Biden is now awoken to that fact.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/11/tim-kaine-interview-biden-israel-netanyahu

[Tetrachloride]

4. you don't say

[PatSeg]

8. I don't know

I think Biden knew what Netanyahu was doing and was trying to find the most diplomatic and effective way to handle him. I don't think Biden is all that naive. As President, he has to choose his words very carefully, lest he be held responsible for blowing up the entire Middle East.

[Ping Tung]

2. Damned Humanitarians are a real thrreat and should be deported back to Humanitaria.

Last edited Thu Apr 11, 2024, 12:55 PM - Edit history (1)

[maxsolomon]

7. The UNICEF convoy was caught in crossfire.

did you not read that snipped paragraph? It wasn't attacked as a threat.

[PatSeg]

9. The comment was sarcasm

[maxsolomon]

12. I was responding to it as such.

Even if it lacked a

[PatSeg]

22. Ah, I see

My brain wasn't fully awake I guess, as I am usually fluent in sarcasm. That one totally went over my head!

[sarisataka]

10. Remember, according to some

Hamas is not fighting or shooting at anyone.

[obamanut2012]

11. What does Hamas have to do with the IDF attacking a UNICEF convoy?

[maxsolomon]

14. Again, the IDF did not specfically attack the convoy:

“We were waiting there when gunfire broke out." Ingram said. "The gunfire came from the direction of the checkpoint toward civilians who then ran away from the checkpoint. And the gunfire hit us."

Why was the IDF shooting at civilians near the checkpoint? Not explained. Hamas would be a possibility, however.

[David__77]

24. Sometimes people shoot toward things to hit them.

[AloeVera]

26. Lol.

[multigraincracker]

28. There is zero independent press

reports to be found.

[sarisataka]

15. "Gunfire broke out"

Implication is that someone was shooting at someone else. Was Hamas attacking the Israelis? Article does not say.

If the Israelis were trying to shoot the vehicles, I would expect more than three bullets to hit when they are parked in a holding area.

[Butterflylady]

17. You need sarcasm thingy.

[Ping Tung]

19. I guess I overestimated some people's capacity for recognizing the obvious.

[lark]

3. How can Israel get every single Palestinian out of Gaza when they are being given food?

Some of them are even getting care - gasp - Israel won't allow either to continue and anything they say to the contrary are just lies to try and keep the munitions flowing from America to them.

[enid602]

27. Goal

Every day they continue the blockade and/or block aid is another day closer to their goal.

[lark]

31. Exactly and so sadly right. n.t.

[democrank]

5. Netanyahu's revenge

Bomb, shoot, starve….any and all.

[WarGamer]

6. Why doesn't the US push for a condemnation resolution at the UN?

Stop payment on checks, turn cargo ships around... recall the Ambassador...

DO SOMETHING.

[Mr. Sparkle]

13. It's not a bug , its a feature

[Bettie]

16. Seems like this is what the plan is

to get rid of Gazans. Just keep food from coming in and "Oopsie! Everyone died of starvation and disease! Who could have predicted that?"

[jaxexpat]

21. The west is moving the goalposts for its ignored genocide candidates.

It used to be that a group would have to be African before the west could successfully ignore preventable mass suffering and death over political boundaries and stuff. Nowadays it's progressed so that the poor of the politically uncertain Middle East have found a place on the scale forgettability in line with Rwandans or Biafrans.

Everyone's expendable. Global climate change has "climate changed" the definitions and perceptions. Any world can be "Third World" now. The miracle of artificial Intelligence and its vanguard, "Conservative Thinking", has inured westerners from unendurable empathy or responsibility. There's no shock reaction in stringing razor wire to "snare and drown" Rio Grande wading infants. Boats of desperation by the thousands, carrying Africans fleeing death and terror at home have, for years, drowned and starved crossing the Mediterranean. It's no longer even a blip on the human atrocity scope.

Who'll be up next? Why, funny you should ask. Ukrainians, Poles and Hungarian dissidents, Russian deserters and Latvian organic farmers are already on the lists along with pregnant Texan and Arizonan rape victims. There's misery enough for all and the mean planetary temperature has just gotten started into the "sorry humans, there's no turning back from here" zone.

If it's any consolation, the laws of physics, which determine the existence of the planet we ride in its trajectory as a universal expansion of matter (or is it a contraction? the jury's out on that sometimes) fraught with gravitational interactions for the last 14 billion years (or twice that according to the latest confusion), are still functioning perfectly, if not mysteriously. As soon as we figure out what time has to do with anything we'll have a scheduling APP available so we can all follow along in the comfort of home or whatever craft we're escaping on.

[Mountainguy]

18. Its almost like being in a war zone

Is dangerous

[Butterflylady]

20. It's Netanyahu

To answer your question. He knows what he is doing, can't get rid of them one way so we'll try another way.

[Botany]

23. Is Israel making Gaza into a ghetto not unlike the ones that the Nazis had in Poland?

No food, no water, little medicine, and 10s of thousands people crowded into small areas
w/out proper shelter. I might be wrong but to me it looks like Netanyahu let the attack
happen last October in order to unleash his military on the Palestinians living in Gaza.

[Iggo]

30. Done been.

[Iggo]

29. They can't help it. We made them do it. (n/t)