The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have said they carried out an airstrike on a humanitarian aid convoy in Gaza aimed at “armed assailants” trying to hijack it but the charity that organised the aid said people killed in the strike were employees of the transport company it was working with.

The convoy, organised by the US-based NGO Anera, was carrying medical supplies and fuel to an Emirati-run hospital in Rafah on Thursday evening at the time of the attack. Its route had been coordinated in advance with the IDF, under a deconfliction process intended to prevent aid vehicles being bombed.

Anera’s Palestine country director, Sandra Rasheed, said: “This is a shocking incident. The convoy, which was coordinated by Anera and approved by Israeli authorities, included an Anera employee who was fortunately unharmed.

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    18 days ago

    Who do you expect to do what?

    Should the West and NATO invade Israel?

    • KinglyWeevil@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      18 days ago

      Pull absolutely all support and funding, permanent ban on weapons transfers, deactivate their F35s. International financial sanctions.

    • threeganzi@sh.itjust.works
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      18 days ago

      There are so many things you can do between nothing and full on invasion. Your question cannot possibly be in good faith.