IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid
www.haaretz.com
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This content is paywalled and I’m not linking the archive link to the site; Haaretz is one of the few news organizations (if not the only one) willing to talk about what’s being done in a critical manner. Any support you can provide, you should.

I didn’t know much about Haaretz but some posters have explained that they’re just zionists as well, just liberal ones; it’s already stickied as the top comment, but here’s the archive link in case you don’t browse comments: https://archive.is/ilyEU

One of the things I WILL mention however is that the article talks about the aid centers and their murky sources. Apparently they’re run by an evangelical who is close to Trump and the Israeli government, which is not boding well at all (and would explain the constant stories recently of people seeking aid who are being shot in high numbers). These aid centers are basically being run by people who most likely don’t see the Palestinians as human beings either.

  • dead [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    24·
    1 day ago

    This content is paywalled and I’m not linking the archive link to the site; Haaretz is one of the few news organizations (if not the only one) willing to talk about what’s being done in a critical manner. Any support you can provide, you should.

    What are you saying? Haaretz is an Israeli newspaper and openly Zionist, although more liberal than other Israeli newspapers. If the GHF aid traps are being reported as bad by Haaretz, then you should imagine that they are so much worse than that. Sometimes Haaretz will report something that is honest, like when they reported that the Hannibal Directive was used on October 7.

    https://archive.is/ilyEU

    I think today is the first day that Haaretz has reported the GHF aid traps are massacring Palestinians. Other news sources have been reporting it daily for over a month. I’ve posted multiple articles about it. I’ve seen it reported by Al Jazeera, Drop Site News, Zeteo News.

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    Over 2 weeks ago, Zeteo published this anonymous testimony of a US mercenary, who was payed to work at a GHF aid trap. The testimony is someone who is probably a chud, foolishly they thought they were going to help people, but decided to leak the testimony when they saw how the aid sites were death traps. Zeteo is founded by former MSNBC anchor Mehdi Hasan.

    This idea that the Israeli military isn’t involved is bullshit. They’re very much involved. They have offices in our compounds. We share our radio communications with them. The higher-ups claim the Israeli military is not involved, but it feels like they’re the man behind the curtain. Sure, they’re not on-site with us, but their snipers and tanks are just hundreds of meters away. You can hear them shooting all day.

    One episode sticks with me. We were monitoring an empty site all day; sometime after dark, dozens of flatbed trucks finally brought aid. The Israeli military soon radioed in that 200 to 300 civilians a couple of kilometers (less than two miles) north were approaching. We then observed an Israeli drone go out there.

    The generous interpretation? Maybe the Israelis were firing between our position and the people in order to keep them from moving forward. I don’t think that’s the case. After all, tanks fire all day long near these aid sites. Snipers fire from what used to be a hospital. Bombs and bullets fly all day long in one direction – toward Palestinians.

    We know the Israeli military has been enforcing curfews in some parts of Gaza. I would not be surprised if the aid was delivered at night deliberately, given it would then draw people out, at which point they could be fired on as combatants, even though they weren’t. It’s very clear that the Israeli military will take any opportunity available to fire.

    People sometimes have to travel miles to get to the sites – and that means through Israeli-controlled areas. Any excuse the military can come up with to say someone is a threat, they’ll take. There’s not really any international media in these areas, and the West doesn’t really want to believe the Palestinian media, so you get to this point where the truth itself is murky. All the while, all I’ve heard all day is Israeli tanks, machine guns, snipers, and bombs.

    But never any fire from the opposite direction.

    https://zeteo.com/p/exclusive-american-security-contractor

    https://archive.is/d4A1V

    • Robert_Kennedy_Jr [xe/xem, xey/xem]@hexbear.netEnglish
      19·
      1 day ago

      Yeah insinuating that Haaretz is worth supporting financially is wild. I seem to remember Norman Finklestein mentioning the editor was the daughter of someone he had been close friends with and the daughter told him never to contact her again after Oct 7th. I guess it seems liberal leaning in comparison of frothingfash Israeli media.

      • dead [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        11·
        23 hours ago

        I think what is telling about the Haaretz article is that they try to paint the whole situation as being caused by an accident, as if the the systematic massacre of Palestinians is not the intended function of the IOF.

        The article continuously states that the IOF militants are confused about why they firing at civilians. The whole article is written as if there was an event of mass amnesia. There’s a quote in the middle of the article which says that war crimes may be ideologically motivated but then the article never investigates further. “My greatest fear is that the shooting and harm to civilians in Gaza aren’t the result of operational necessity or poor judgment, but rather the product of an ideology held by field commanders, which they pass down to the troops as an operational plan.” Only a brief moment of self awareness.

        It’s good that an Israeli newspaper admits that the Israel is doing a war crimes, however the tone of the article is still sympathetic towards the Israeli militants.