I’m sorry for your loss.
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At least 196 aid workers killed in Gaza since 7 October - data
The war in Gaza has led to at least 196 aid workers being killed before last night’s attack on the seven WCK workers, according to data from the Aid Worker Security Database.
Of those killed, 174 have worked for the UN, while aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) say at least five of their staff, alongside many of their family members, have been killed.
Jamie McGoldrick, the humanitarian co-ordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, says the recent fatal strike on Gaza is “not an isolated incident”.
Describing the Palestinian enclave as “one of the world’s most dangerous and difficult places to work,” he says “there is no safe place left in Gaza”.
Israel has accused UNRWA of supporting Hamas, which the agency has denied, but in January it sacked nine of the 12 employees accused in an Israeli document of playing a part in the 7 October attacks.
The UN has yet to publish the results of an investigation into Israel’s claims.
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Don’t see where the contradiction is at all. The IDF has always seen children as “ particularly difficult terrorist threats”,
This is also not new.
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“Not doing enough to protect”≠ actively killing.
If you don’t get that, you don’t get anything.
(Biden, not you obvs)
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Bowen: The Israel-Gaza war is at a crossroads
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Nah, that’s outdated, if you’ve been watching our techbro overlords since they broke free of the shackles of Big Blue you would know it currently reads: “a computer can never be held accountable, therefore it makes an excellent scapegoat”.
The IDF chooses to kill civilians. Look at the ratio compared to how many civilians are killed by Russia in Ukraine, look at the rate of journalists killing compared to any war ever, look at the rate of attacks on hospitals.
Sure blame AI, the algorithm, whatever. Just keep killing.
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José Andrés tries to appeal to Israelis’ better natures. The trouble is that no society is “better than” what it collectively does and collectively approves of. If it was, it wouldn’t do those things in the first place.
We know Israelis. Israelis, in their heart of hearts, know that food is not a weapon of war.
Israel is better than the way this war is being waged. It is better than blocking food and medicine to civilians. It is better than killing aid workers who coordinate their movements with the IDF.
The Israeli government needs to open land routes to food and medicine today. It needs to stop killing civilians and aid workers today. It needs to start the long journey to peace today.
Reminding Israelis of how much they have in common with their mortal enemies, who they regard as morally and culturally inferior, probably isn’t going to work either.
The peoples of the Mediterranean and Middle East, regardless of ethnicity and religion, share a culture that values food as a powerful statement of humanity and hospitality – of our shared hope for a better tomorrow.
There’s a reason why, at this special time of year, Christians make Easter eggs, Muslims eat an egg at Iftar dinners, and an egg sits on the seder plate.
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