World Central Kitchen is demanding an independent investigation on the strikes.
Jonathan Duguay, a close friend of Flickinger who was working in Cyprus for World Central Kitchen at the time of the attack, told The Canadian Press in an interview that Flickinger wasn’t afraid because the aid deliveries were co-ordinated with Israel’s assistance. Article content
“We had an agreement with the IDF,” said Duguay. “There was a special route. They knew where we were.”
Flickinger joined World Central Kitchen last fall to help recover from PTSD developed during his tour in Afghanistan. He and his partner, Sandy Leclerc, had recently moved to Costa Rica with their son, who is 18 months old.
“I don’t’ like what you are doing, but I will not punish you” - paraphrase Trudeau
I don’t believe Israel was intentionally targeting World Central Kitchen. This whole incident is a massive PR disaster for them, especially given that the victims were citizens of powerful and influential countries doing one of the most selfless humanitarian jobs possible.
Having said that, this is the kind of mistake that only happens when a military’s targeting rules are basically “commit war crimes”. Like, maybe their target was white civilian vans being used as ambulances by the Palestinians, and they just blew up the wrong white civilian vans. The difference is that killing Palestinian doctors and paramedics doesn’t generate the same international headlines.
Just this week I read a story about how Israel is using AI to identify targets to assassinate. At first they were just targeting senior Hamas leaders, but at this stage they have tens of thousands of targets including police and civil defense workers. Technically these are affiliated with Hamas, but only because Hamas is the official government of the Gaza strip.
How do they kill them? It’s hard to target and kill them when they’re out in the field, so the Israelis wait until they return home and then they bomb their houses, killing them and their families: “for every junior Hamas operative that Lavender marked, it was permissible to kill up to 15 or 20 civilians”
What do they call the system that alerts them when the targets return home, and can now be targeted for a bombing? I shit you not, it’s called “Where’s Daddy?”
You missed the part where they literally coordinated with the IDF on their trip, didn’t you? The only reasons this could happen are intentional or criminal negligence. Given how well this fits with the trends, it’s hard to imagine it was negligence.
It’s right in line with Israeli strategy.
You can’t starve out the people who live there if relief organizations are succeeding in feeding the victims.
This resulted in World Central Kitchen to turn their ships around and stop feeding the starving people. Just as intended.
This is the reality of what’s going on, the mainstream outlets aren’t quite able to bring themselves to say it out loud. Any other nation but Israel and the sanctions would be ramping up, but here we are, still wondering if this is the atrocity that means we should stop shipping weapons to them.
They’ve murdered over 200 journalists for similar reasons.
It’s like we are living through the holocaust but with real time updates.
It’s so horrific that they continue to get away with it. Their goal is annihilation.
