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Your so funny, have you read who wrote the piece you originally linked to from Sky News? Breaking 'They are a target in his eyes': IDF releases findings of what went wrong in strike that killed aid workers The IDF has released findings of a strike that killed seven aid workers - identifying that a series of mistakes and incorrect assumptions resulted in their deaths. By Alistair Bunkall, Middle East correspondent, and Katy Scholes, international producer Friday 5 April 2024 12:53, UK
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BIOGRAPHY Alistair is Middle East correspondent. He was formerly defence and security correspondent, covering global security issues from conflict to counter-terrorism. He regularly files from the frontlines in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, North Korea and NATO's eastern border with Russia – as well as the UK. He has been given unprecedented access to some of the UK's most secretive establishments: GCHQ, the Trident nuclear deterrent, the country's highly secure air command bunker and the UK's covert drone base in the Middle East. Alistair has covered elections in Pakistan and Turkey, the Eurozone crisis across the continent and humanitarian disasters in South Sudan and the Philippines. https://news.sky.com/author/alistair-bunkall-499
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Israel is at War - General discussion (pt3)
Jeff the Chef replied to Social Media's topic in The War in Israel
How very dare you, the IDF murdering innocent civilians, who would ever think such a thing? -
Israel is at War - General discussion (pt3)
Jeff the Chef replied to Social Media's topic in The War in Israel
Israeli forces kill Palestinian collecting aid Exclusive video obtained by Al Jazeera shows Israeli forces opening fire and killing a Palestinian man as he tried to collect aid in north Gaza. https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/4/5/israeli-forces-kill-palestinian-collecting-aid -
FINDINGS ARE A DAMNING SLUR ON THE ISRAELI MILITARY Alistair Bunkall Middle East correspondent @AliBunkallSKY This wasn’t an accident. It was no mistaken misfire. The IDF cell tracking the vehicles fired lethal precision-guided missiles into each car, one after the other. Through blurred nighttime surveillance footage, they saw what they thought was a man carrying a gun and assumed he was a Hamas fighter. They then assumed everyone else travelling in the vehicles were also Hamas. There was no evidence for this. They kept firing because they saw passengers still alive. The basic failure to pass details of the aid convoy down the chain of command is a damning slur on a military that thinks of itself as being one of the best in the world. The decision to launch air strikes with the intent of killing people, based on unsound evidence, raises deeply troubling questions of ethics in combat. It's a sad irony that one of the only reasons World Central Kitchen were operating at night was because of their previously good working relationship with the Israeli military. Had six of the seven killed not been foreign aid workers, whose deaths caused an international outcry, then this investigation would not have happened and the Israeli military would not have been forced to explain its actions. How many Palestinian civilians therefore have been killed in similar, uninvestigated cases of mistaken identity, we will probably never know. https://news.sky.com/story/grave-mistake-idf-releases-findings-of-what-went-wrong-in-strike-that-killed-aid-workers-13108160
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F.Y.I. On 29 April 2018, Amber Rudd resigned as Home Secretary after misleading the Home Affairs Select Committee on deportation targets. Javid resigned as Chancellor during the February 2020 cabinet reshuffle after refusing a demand from Johnson and his chief adviser Dominic Cummings that he dismiss his advisers, and was succeeded by Rishi Sunak. Pritti Patel was found to have breached the Ministerial Code in relation to incidents of bullying. Following the resignation of Johnson and subsequent election of Liz Truss as Prime Minister, Patel resigned as Home Secretary on 6 September 2022. Suella Braverman was sacked by the prime minister because she sent an official document from her personal email to a fellow MP, in a serious breach of ministerial rules. In October 2022, amid a government crisis, Truss appointed Shapps as Home Secretary, replacing Suella Braverman. His six-day tenure made Shapps the shortest-serving Home Secretary in British political history. Suella Braverman, 2nd term. In Sunak's cabinet reshuffle on 13 November 2023, James Cleverly was appointed Home Secretary, succeeding Suella Braverman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Secretary#List_of_home_secretaries
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Israel is at War - General discussion (pt3)
Jeff the Chef replied to Social Media's topic in The War in Israel
A Tory former Foreign Office minister is being investigated by his party after giving an interview in which he called for two Conservative peers and a minister to face repercussions for their support of Israel. Speaking to LBC this morning, he said the Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) group had been "doing the bidding of [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu, bypassing all proper processes of government to exercise undue influence at the top of government". Sky News understands the party has told Sir Alan he is being investigated - although this could take weeks. In the interview, he singled out Lord Stuart Polak, the honorary president of the CFI, and Lord Eric Pickles, as among those who should face punishment for their support of Israel. https://news.sky.com/story/tory-ex-foreign-office-minister-sir-alan-duncan-investigated-by-party-after-israel-comments-13107785 -
Israel is at War - General discussion (pt3)
Jeff the Chef replied to Social Media's topic in The War in Israel
Netanyahu’s office says it will allow “temporary” aid deliveries via its border with the northern Gaza Strip “to ensure the continuation of the fighting and to achieve the goals of the war”. US President Joe Biden tells Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to “empower his negotiators to conclude a deal without delay”. Hamas official Osama Hamadan earlier told a news briefing negotiations were “stuck in a vicious circle” with Israel refusing requests to withdraw troops, allow aid, and for Palestinians to return to the northern Gaza Strip. At least 101 Palestinians have been returned to the Gaza Strip from Israeli prisons, with some having suffered fractures and other injuries, according to a medical source. At least 33,037 Palestinians have been killed and 75,668 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from Hamas’s October 7 attack stands at 1,139, with dozens still held captive. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/4/5/israels-war-on-gaza-live-biden-presses-israel-for-immediate-ceasefire -
The three-point announcement to ease aid flows into Gaza represents the most significant move by Israel since this conflict began six months ago. It also starkly undermines Israel's own oft-repeated assertion that it has not blocked or impeded aid movement into Gaza. It follows a call between President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. https://news.sky.com/story/israels-decision-to-ease-aid-flows-into-gaza-is-an-incredibly-significant-move-13108130
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'Things have gone far too far' - Former foreign secretary Jack Straw | Israel-Hamas War Jack Straw tells Sir Trevor Phillips that he supports a halt to arms exports to Israel because 'I think things have gone far too far'. He goes on to say that 'there isn't in my view any doubt at all that Israel is breaching international law' https://news.sky.com/video/things-have-gone-far-too-far-former-foreign-secretary-jack-straw-israel-hamas-war-13107962
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In February 2024, Proactiva Open Arms announced that their Open Arms tugboat would conduct delivery to the Gaza Strip towing a barge of food and water provided by World Central Kitchen. The ship had been reportedly stationed in Cyprus since 16 February. The president of Cyprus had proposed a maritime humanitarian corridor at a conference in Paris in early November, and held conversations the following month with the Egyptian president and Jordanian king. According to Cypriot authorities, there were also "technical discussions" with Israeli officials. In an interview with Tel Aviv Radio, the Israeli foreign minister said in December that "It can start immediately". On 11 March, the ship was in Cyprus awaiting departure, after Cypriot authorities claimed that permission had been granted. The goods had reportedly been checked by Cypriot officials with Israeli oversight. It contained "nearly 200 tons of food". The shipment arrived on 15 March at a beach south of Gaza City. According to WCK, this was the first boat to reach Gaza in nearly 2 decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Central_Kitchen