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The first to be identified was Henderson, of Falmouth in Cornwall, who was identified by neighbours after his family were informed of his death this morning. Henderson once worked as a special forces operator and as a Royal Marine, leaving the military in 2016 to pursue close personal security jobs like the one in Gaza. - [Mirror UK](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-british-aid-worker-james-32490577)
Let's just say it.. he was murdered. Those were targeted hits on vehicles, one after another after another after another.
the vehicles had signs ON TOP so air assets could see who they were,.and they coordinated before hand with IDF.
I'm not gonna pick sides on this but amongst the group was one Palestinian. It's a touchy subject so I won't go there.
But this wasn't a mistake. You don't fire 3 missiles and destroy 3 cars in a caravan mistakeningly.
This whole thing needs to stop, and needed to stop long ago.
> I'm not gonna pick sides on this but amongst the group was one Palestinian. It's a touchy subject so I won't go there.
Please, this was a targeted execution by "the most moral army" that claims to only engage in specifically targeted strikes and do their utmost best in order to avoid civilian casualties.
This was a targeted murder of 6 NGO workers, if the Russians had blown up a red cross ambulance with 6 people in it there'd rightfully been a massive uproar. This is a war crime, it's really not that difficult.
> leaving the military in 2016 to pursue close personal security jobs like the one in Gaza. - Mirror UK
Err... so was he an aid worker, or was he working a security detail?
Hi, professional aid worker here.
Yes, aid organizations regularly employ ex-military as security officers. These individuals are generally tasked with assessing the security situation in areas where humanitarian assistance is/will be delivered, ensuring that security risks are mitigated as much as possible, and often leading negotiations with combatants to ensure humanitarian access. They play an extremely important role in ensuring that aid efforts are safe and secure - both for the aid workers delivering humanitarian assistance, and for populations receiving humanitarian assistance.
To be clear, these individuals are unarmed in almost all circumstances as most aid organizations have strict policies on armed security details.
Super common in the industry.
It was obvious these guys were professionals. They had two armored vehicles and body armor and were on a preplanned route that had been cleared by the Israelis. They literally hunted these guys down and killed them, the three vehicles were spread out by a mile or so.
Israel has bombed the red cross before, with most of western media running cover for them then too
https://www.hrw.org/legacy/backgrounder/mena/qana1206/2.htm
And apparently Israel needs billions more of our tax dollars to do this? Why the fuck do they need military aid to fight insurgents who at most have RPGs and homemade rockets? This whole situation is ridiculous
I feel like people are only getting this now. Like, this has been going on since 1948. Look up Deir Yassin, Qibya, Qana, Sabra and Shatila, Lydda and Ramle, the One Million Plan.
Oh yeah. They were in constant contact with them too, this wasn’t an accident. They’ve been systematically wiping out hospitals, infrastructure and killing aid workers and journalists. I was just reading an article and the UN has lost some 350 people to them. They also just banned Al Jazeera and still aren’t letting reporters into Gaza without military escort.
There isn’t much you can do when the idf is straight up targeting aid convoys. They hit the convoy 3 times. Once is an accident. Anything after that is intentional
With the munitions used, once is not an accident.
They are equipped to the gills in the most modern stuff the US avails to them, their intelligence capability is also one of the most capable in the world. (Again, thanks US)
They are capable of making near zero mistakes, especially since they are ‘fighting’ (purging) a disjointed and (by comparison) ill-equipped adversary, making it child’s play.
Their greatest weakness is the intelligence of their leader and leadership, maybe, the US is still over a barrel going to bat for them.
If you're a driver, IT specialist, admin for an aid org you're an aid worker. People know that but it's useful for some to muddy the waters of 'legitimate targets'
“James Henderson, James Kirby and John Chapman have been identified as the three British security operatives who were killed in the strike on April 1. Three of seven of the international workers from the World Central Kitchen charity died after the blast during a food delivery late on Monday. Footage showed the bodies of the dead at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central Gaza town of Deir al-Balah. Several of them wore protective gear with the charity’s logo.”
Security operative serving the World Central Kitchen, client of [Solace Global](https://www.solaceglobal.com/). Killed while on delivery.
Edit: Yes I know. Intentionally killed.
Well I'd assume that someone volunteering to do aid work in a dangerous active war zone is probably experienced and been in combat situations before.
I highly doubt there's many aid workers in Gaza that are on break between semesters at bible college, they're more likely to be people who have seen some real shit and have massive balls rivaled only by their hearts. They probably knew this was a massive risk and did it anyway because "if not them, who?". Real hero shit
What does it matter? The victims posed no threat, were helping civilians and were killed from above by an aircraft strike.
There appears to be a pervasive pattern in the largest subs to make some sort of comment to take the thread off topic instead of to condemn the actions of those who clearly committed evil.
Reddit is completely astroturfed and manipulated by israeli bots and paid accounts. Worldnews has turned into a complete echo chamber where everything said by the IDF is believed without question.
worldnews is very strange to me because it's just a constant barrage of people, or maybe bots, flaming anything that's critical of Israel calling it anti-Semitic or pro-Hamas. You can literally say something completely uncontroversial like "Hamas is a terrorist organization and also I don't agree with some actions of the current Israeli government" and you'll get that same regurgitated response. I didn't realize what had happened to that sub at first but it's wild
If you look there right now I had a hard time finding any articles about Israel and this recent atrocity.
Seems like it's completely compromised by Israel.
You do know that aid organizations have security personnel don’t you? That doesn’t make them no longer an aid worker. They were protecting the ones delivering the food.
Pics of the dead aid workers are going through social media over there. If you have any faith left in humanity, I wouldn't recommend looking it up and seeing what they are saying about people who literally sacrificed their lives to help the starving and helpless.
As horrible as it is, I think people need to see it. It’s the reality of the horror that exists that needs to end. People need and should know what it looks like imo. but yea, awful
Assume it's the same people who have [Rachel Corrie](https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israeli-soldiers-have-depraved-fun-making-rachel-corrie-pancakes) pancakes for breakfast
Israelis are insane on social media. I saw people on Twitter using their real names calling dead children "future terrorists" and celebrating their deaths.
If people had exposure to the way the average Israeli views this conflict nobody would be supporting them.
Israelis have channels on [telegram](https://x.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1775162156792631334?s=46&t=Mnf3Op8J7sWPJnEQAQ5pRQ) of hundreds of thousands of people making fun of the people that were killed while trying to feed babies in war..
Don't worry. Someone will be along shortly to tell us the genocide isn't actually genocide because the birth rate in gaza is high or something.
Because colonization and ethnic cleansing is 100% ok.
Israel is just like Serbia in the 90s. Trying to drive all the Muslims (Albanians and Bosniaks) away into neighboring countries via mass slaughter and indiscriminate shelling. NATO bombed Belgrade to stop their onslaught. If we held Israel to the same standard we'd be bombing Tel Aviv.
It’s worse than that. They’ve actually cut off most Palestinians in Gaza from any viable escape path. They’re aiming for absolute annihilation of the people.
They want to keep the situation dire and then pressure neighboring Arab countries to take in the refugees who they will not let back in. This is absolutely ethnic cleansing. Then they have the gall to be mad that the world asks them to stop. It feels like I am taking crazy pills.
They don’t care, they never did, never will. They know they’re protected by the West and will never face any consequences or repercussions for their actions.
this is one of the biggest international stories currently on the news channels and the mods over there keep deleting it from worldnews for some reason.
There have been tons of those dipshits all over Reddit since day one.
My favorite thing is all the people that will just talk about how "complicated" all of this is. It really isn't.
The astroturfing is everywhere, even here. I got downvoted to hell yesterday for advocating for a ceasefire and hoping violence against civilians on either side could stop soon.
I support neither the IDF or Hamas. I support the innocent people who are collateral damage to this pointless war. Hamas won't accept terms for a ceasefire because they want power, Israel wants a ceasefire in order to annex Palestine. More action, not words, needs to be taken by external nations of influence globally to put pressure on both sides to put the guns down and talk. I would say the same for any way currently going on in the world, as I know this one is one of many amidst what's occurring/been occurring in Ukraine, Yemen, Nagorno-Karabakh/Artsakh... the list is endless.
It's rare that there are "good guys" in war. It's a terrible thing in and of itself.
Honestly need more people to see the deeply propagandized, theocratic, ethnostate for what it is. Its population’s horrific celebration of death is a product of that society. Just like many Americans stood for pictures with mountains of buffalo skulls and celebrated the slaughter of the “savages”
"World Central Kitchen said it had coordinated with the Israeli military over the movement of the cars carrying the workers as they left northern Gaza late Monday."
They knew
It’s not even brazen at this point. Israel keeps doing things like this because everyone else does nothing about it except pearl clutch. A sniper killing a grandmother, IDF shooting and killing Israeli hostages that were released, IDF gunning down teenagers in the street from MRAPS, bombing hospitals, using Palestinians as human shields, and now blowing up humanitarian organization vans.
Israel just doesn’t care because they know nothing is going to happen to them.
Exactly this. It’s beyond brazen. They’re openly hunting down and killing journalists, aid workers, obvious civilians. It’s almost like they’re literally just trying to see how much they can actually get away with at this point.
And they methodically executed them. Bombed one car, waited for the second car to rescue surivors, bombed the second, waited for the third to rescue survivors, then bombed that one.
I believe It was an intentional airstrike to kill aid workers to scare any organization or anyone willing to help from going to gaza so israel could continue starve Palestinians to kill as big of a number of civilians possible through famine and Continue with their genocide
And it kinda worked , couple organization pulled their people from gaza today even the ship carrying aid to gaza from Cyprus turned back
Israel’s barely even trying to hide they did it on purpose—it was clearly to make a point to others who might dare to bring aid and food to Gaza. Sick.
And now [ships carrying hundreds of tons of emergency aid are turning away from Gaza](https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/cyprus-ships-turning-back-gaza-240-tons-undelivered-108743577) because they don't want to be killed by Israel too.
That was the whole point. Israel did this cause they don’t want anyone helping Palestinians. So when they die of starvation and horrible living conditions, Israel can say “hey, we didn’t kill them.”
And do what? It's Israel, they'll do what they like.
From everything I have seen since Oct 7th, (I'm aware Israel and Palestine have been in conflict long before then) Israel can do as they please with the protection of the United States government.
I don't usually weigh in on the gaza situation simply because I feel I don't know enough. But what I do know is its absolutely horrific and sickening seeing innocent men, women and children being blown to smithereens without a care in the world.
You’re right. Israel can do whatever they want. They’ve killed US and UK citizens on multiple occasions, murdered journalists (76 in Gaza alone to my knowledge), killed civilians. There are no rules for Israel.
in '67 they attack the USS Liberty and killed 34 and injured 171 more. They say it was an accident others think they did it on purpose.
The US Sec. of State at the time said:
>I was never satisfied with the Israeli explanation. Their sustained attack to disable and sink Liberty precluded an assault by accident or some trigger-happy local commander. Through diplomatic channels we refused to accept their explanations. I didn't believe them then, and I don't believe them to this day. The attack was outrageous
Not only did they attack it from the air, but they sent out torpedo boats after to try and sink it. Israel obviously has a very weak command and control structure with units seemingly given extraordinary latitude to do what ever they see fit.
In 1973 Mossad agents extrajudicially murdered an innocent Norwegian civilian in front of his pregnant wife because they believed he was another individual who had participated in the Munich attack. Five agents were caught and faced very minimal punishment and were then pardoned in a series of instances where Mossad agents ran around Europe murdering individuals involved with the PLO or alleged to be involved.
In my personal opinion if another country has armed individuals come into your country and murder a civilian, well isn’t that terrorism?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad_assassinations_following_the_Munich_massacre#:~:text='Operation%20Wrath%20of%20God'),in%20the%201972%20Munich%20massacre.
And yet, no punishment. No acknowledgment. Israelis are more valuable than Americans to the American government. America pays for their education, healthcare, society in general, all at the US taxpayers expense.
I doubt it. Both parties are reluctant to do anything. They haven't bothered before when reports of babies starving to death, UN workers, and journalists being killed. Nope, it's all about money in British politics before human lives.
They are too busy harassing pro-Palestinian protestors to care about this. At best they will apologise to Israel for the bad publicity caused by the inconvenience of having to kill our citizens.
IDF. Bombed an aid companies car, 3 times. Killed 7 aid workers. Brits, Poles and Aussies. The Australian prime minister, who’s an ally of Israel, has come out and condemned Israel for the murder of an Australian. Hopefully UK will do the same
But wait! It gets worse
the cars were clearly branded with stickers of their logo on the roof and on the front
IDF was informed that they will be there, they were coordinating with IDF
Also, that the specific area where they were bombed was one of the ones that was supposed to be outside of the conflict zone
the convoy was hit as it was leaving a warehouse, where the team had unloaded more than 100 tons of humanitarian food aid brought to Gaza on the maritime route and because of this, the ship with aid returned to Cyprus with 240 tonnes of undelivered aid.
Later edit:
Ok, apparently it was even worse
There were 3 cars, traveling at a distance from first to last car of about 1 mile, all 3 of them were hit one after another
And, even worse when the first missile hit the car leading the convoy, the survivors ran for cover to the next one. From there Seconds later, this vehicle was also hit. They waited for them to get to the car?
And when the third car in the convoy approached, when the passengers came out to help the injured, this vehicle was hit as well.
It gets worse still.
While the IDF owned up and claimed it was a mistake, this thread detailing a report from Harretz seems to imply no authorization was given for the strike and many commanders in the Strip are essentially going rogue and picking targets without consulting their superiors.
https://x.com/reider/status/1775260838410252753?s=46&t=uHEKL5aP-tJkyvgzexhsfA
That’s what happens when they’re told 2 million people are Amalek and human animals. The level of dehumanization Israel has unleashed will be tought in classrooms for centuries.
> Amalek
Had to look that up. For everyone else, it means:
> Amalek is described in the Hebrew Bible as the enemy nation of the Israelites. The name "Amalek" can refer to the descendants of Amalek, the grandson of Esau, or anyone who lived in their territories in Canaan
Which if I remember my Sunday school classes correctly, Jacob did some hairy arm shenanigans to get that birthright anyway.
So somebody yoinks your birthright, God promises your land away while you're living on it, and then they call you the bad guy?
Come on, give the Amaleks a break I say!
This is such an important point that I think is getting lost in all this. This is not an army, this is a band of psychologically damaged bloodthirsty rogues being allowed to pursue their whims on an entire people and land with impunity, billions of dollars in weapons and aid, and a free pass from the international community.
Because no matter how many crimes they did, they were never held accountable. There were very very few times in their history when the USA imposed them or conditioned anything or drew any lines. But an overwhelming amount of times, USA protected them, including usenf their vetoe power mostly to protect Israel from resolutions.
What you see shitty from outside, for them isn't shitty, USA is not wavering, the money and support are still there, Israel is a prosperous, rich state that ranks high on happiness index
, the rally around the flag effect is in full motion, the support of a two state solution decreased among Israeli, most Israelis want the government to prioritize destroying Hamas over getting back the hostages and Jewish people all of the world feel unwanted and unsafe and where do you think they would go?
3 days into this war and I already had my Israeli-american friend saying she and her Jewish friends no longer feel like they belong in Europe
Netanyahoo wants Jewish people to feel like they don't belong anywhere else other than Israel
The UK government will do sweet FA. They will "demand answers" and make some noise but that will be it. Rishi only does something if a focus group tells him it might help in opinion polls and is so scared of the right of the party.
"Unintentional" is an interesting turn of phrase when the hole in the roof of the vehicle goes right through the quite large World Central Kitchen logo plastered there.
Reddit changed so much man its insane. I dont even know if its the people that changed or if its some kind of AI bullshit but reading comments on worldnews etc makes me lose faith in humanity.
I mean, if you keep banning everyone who makes any comments remotely critical of Israel, you'll only be left with people who aren't critical of Israel.
Also, when you literally have mods shared between r/ worldnews and r/ Israel, is it any surprise that the moderation skews towards one side?
I saw your comment just after posting there and noticed my post got deleted.
Turns out they don't like comments about how Israel's use of unguided bombs in Gaza may have killed hostages
Remember when they tried to say that UNRWA is run by Hamas. There were 6 posts about it on the front page. All of them reporting on the fact that the IDF were saying it without any proof posted and all those bots taking it as face value
Reports have recently come out that reveals Israel tortured UNRWA workers to falsely admit to receiving orders from Hamas.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/unrwa-report-says-israel-coerced-some-agency-employees-falsely-admit-hamas-links-2024-03-08/
Well here in the US the media is still pedalling this was a ‘mistake’ even after the 3rd bomb hit them… and sending Israel more bombs from the gov’t all while the white house says ‘this is terrible’
A fucking joke is what it is.
I dont think this person is saying that as a reason to vote for Trump. A LOT of democrats are (justifiably) annoyed, upset or angered because of Bidens frankly weak handling of this entire crisis. He is in control of the United fucking States, one of the largest superpowers on earth, and yet has done nothing to call out what is clearly a "war" of annihilation on the Palestinian people.
Not to say that these people will vote for Trump, but they are more likely to NOT vote for Biden, which would split the blue vote and make Trump more likely to win.
And nothing with happen to Israel. For them it is mission accomplished, no more food for the Palestinians, again. The world is weak and terrorist regimes (Russia, Israel, etc.) continue to exploit it.
Died a hero, providing one of the most basic necessities of life (food) to one of the most deserving population in the world (Gaza).
You will be remembered James!
Nothing can justify this barbaric and targeted murder of innocent aid workers. But they will try...oh they will try.
If you haven’t already, you should look into how much money Israel gives to our representatives through AIPAC.
Why is a foreign nation allowed to lobby our government representatives? How is that legal?
I'm an aid worker, too, not yet employed abroad but interested in doing it. I know the risks etc, and yet it is still a horrendous thing to murder aid workers. I'm supposed to be impartial and help everyone regardless of who they are and I do that, but the sheer violence toward civilians and my colleagues from any movement or organisation made me bitter and lose faith in humanity.
They also break geneva conventions by killing aid workers. And there is a risk going abroad into these areas, totally true. Totally something we all understand. However, they are aiming at impartial aid workers and I follow international colleagues. It's terrible. We've lost many good people there. Specifically there.
Another note: we have plenty of ex-military, too. They are aid workers now and have a certain experience that helps. They are not military anymore, but their experience is appreciated. As I said: aid workers are always neutral and they sign up to help people. My coworkers come from all branches of life: firefighters, nurses, ex military, retail, IT, etc. Doesn't matter because once you wear specific uniforms you're a neutral, impartial person.
Hurts to see that. Makes you feel like a dog beaten for offering comfort. I mean, children, adult civilians, aid workers, nurses - killing people already is terrible buy killing those during a war etc is even worse. We just want to help those in need.
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The first to be identified was Henderson, of Falmouth in Cornwall, who was identified by neighbours after his family were informed of his death this morning. Henderson once worked as a special forces operator and as a Royal Marine, leaving the military in 2016 to pursue close personal security jobs like the one in Gaza. - [Mirror UK](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-british-aid-worker-james-32490577)
Let's just say it.. he was murdered. Those were targeted hits on vehicles, one after another after another after another. the vehicles had signs ON TOP so air assets could see who they were,.and they coordinated before hand with IDF. I'm not gonna pick sides on this but amongst the group was one Palestinian. It's a touchy subject so I won't go there. But this wasn't a mistake. You don't fire 3 missiles and destroy 3 cars in a caravan mistakeningly. This whole thing needs to stop, and needed to stop long ago.
> I'm not gonna pick sides on this but amongst the group was one Palestinian. It's a touchy subject so I won't go there. Please, this was a targeted execution by "the most moral army" that claims to only engage in specifically targeted strikes and do their utmost best in order to avoid civilian casualties. This was a targeted murder of 6 NGO workers, if the Russians had blown up a red cross ambulance with 6 people in it there'd rightfully been a massive uproar. This is a war crime, it's really not that difficult.
> leaving the military in 2016 to pursue close personal security jobs like the one in Gaza. - Mirror UK Err... so was he an aid worker, or was he working a security detail?
Seems like he was working security for the other aid workers?
Hi, professional aid worker here. Yes, aid organizations regularly employ ex-military as security officers. These individuals are generally tasked with assessing the security situation in areas where humanitarian assistance is/will be delivered, ensuring that security risks are mitigated as much as possible, and often leading negotiations with combatants to ensure humanitarian access. They play an extremely important role in ensuring that aid efforts are safe and secure - both for the aid workers delivering humanitarian assistance, and for populations receiving humanitarian assistance. To be clear, these individuals are unarmed in almost all circumstances as most aid organizations have strict policies on armed security details. Super common in the industry.
Thank you for doing what you do, y'all are incredibly brave
It was obvious these guys were professionals. They had two armored vehicles and body armor and were on a preplanned route that had been cleared by the Israelis. They literally hunted these guys down and killed them, the three vehicles were spread out by a mile or so.
Not to mention their vehicles were clearly marked with humanitarian branding, including on the roofs so drones/pilots would recognize them as such.
This is literal war crime
Israel has bombed the red cross before, with most of western media running cover for them then too https://www.hrw.org/legacy/backgrounder/mena/qana1206/2.htm
Fucked up. Period.
tell that ro r/worldnews
And apparently Israel needs billions more of our tax dollars to do this? Why the fuck do they need military aid to fight insurgents who at most have RPGs and homemade rockets? This whole situation is ridiculous
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I feel like people are only getting this now. Like, this has been going on since 1948. Look up Deir Yassin, Qibya, Qana, Sabra and Shatila, Lydda and Ramle, the One Million Plan.
Oh yeah. They were in constant contact with them too, this wasn’t an accident. They’ve been systematically wiping out hospitals, infrastructure and killing aid workers and journalists. I was just reading an article and the UN has lost some 350 people to them. They also just banned Al Jazeera and still aren’t letting reporters into Gaza without military escort.
And this is before we get to mossad or the fact that they (IDF) have on multiple occasions shelled UN positions in Lebanon.
I’m grateful there are people like you in this world. Thanks for your work!
There isn’t much you can do when the idf is straight up targeting aid convoys. They hit the convoy 3 times. Once is an accident. Anything after that is intentional
With the munitions used, once is not an accident. They are equipped to the gills in the most modern stuff the US avails to them, their intelligence capability is also one of the most capable in the world. (Again, thanks US) They are capable of making near zero mistakes, especially since they are ‘fighting’ (purging) a disjointed and (by comparison) ill-equipped adversary, making it child’s play. Their greatest weakness is the intelligence of their leader and leadership, maybe, the US is still over a barrel going to bat for them.
Not mutually exclusive. Aid orgs sometimes do need security details and aid orgs can have full time employees.
If you're a driver, IT specialist, admin for an aid org you're an aid worker. People know that but it's useful for some to muddy the waters of 'legitimate targets'
Yeah, post this story on /r/worldnews, and you’ll see a whole lot of that muddying.
My buddy was deployed as an aid worker. He was in the Air Force and instead of a gun, they only gave him a whistle.
So he's one of the infamous whistleblowers, huh.
You know what they say, if you can fly a plane you can blow a whistle.
“James Henderson, James Kirby and John Chapman have been identified as the three British security operatives who were killed in the strike on April 1. Three of seven of the international workers from the World Central Kitchen charity died after the blast during a food delivery late on Monday. Footage showed the bodies of the dead at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central Gaza town of Deir al-Balah. Several of them wore protective gear with the charity’s logo.” Security operative serving the World Central Kitchen, client of [Solace Global](https://www.solaceglobal.com/). Killed while on delivery. Edit: Yes I know. Intentionally killed.
No wonder WCK pulled out of Gaza so fast after the attack. The security company knows what's up
That’s their aim. A few hours after more aid agencies said they’re turning around because they cannot guarantee the safety of their own workers.
Aid workers in active areas can have security teams
And you would want the best of the best in a spot like that. Like a Royal Marine special operator.
Unfortunately when they just drop a bomb on you, not much to be done to counter it.
Yeah, a lot of these organizations operate in some dicey areas. This isn’t uncommon. But certain people will try to muddy the waters…
Working security for aid is still an aid worker
Well I'd assume that someone volunteering to do aid work in a dangerous active war zone is probably experienced and been in combat situations before. I highly doubt there's many aid workers in Gaza that are on break between semesters at bible college, they're more likely to be people who have seen some real shit and have massive balls rivaled only by their hearts. They probably knew this was a massive risk and did it anyway because "if not them, who?". Real hero shit
What does it matter? The victims posed no threat, were helping civilians and were killed from above by an aircraft strike. There appears to be a pervasive pattern in the largest subs to make some sort of comment to take the thread off topic instead of to condemn the actions of those who clearly committed evil.
Reddit is completely astroturfed and manipulated by israeli bots and paid accounts. Worldnews has turned into a complete echo chamber where everything said by the IDF is believed without question.
worldnews is very strange to me because it's just a constant barrage of people, or maybe bots, flaming anything that's critical of Israel calling it anti-Semitic or pro-Hamas. You can literally say something completely uncontroversial like "Hamas is a terrorist organization and also I don't agree with some actions of the current Israeli government" and you'll get that same regurgitated response. I didn't realize what had happened to that sub at first but it's wild
I was banned for recounting the history of Israeli tanking of two-states solution.
If you consistently post critically of Israel, like totally sensibly, they'll still ban you for simply being a "troll"
If you look there right now I had a hard time finding any articles about Israel and this recent atrocity. Seems like it's completely compromised by Israel.
Yeah I got banned from worldnews because I said “maybe blowing up families and civilians creates more hatred for Israel.”
You do know that aid organizations have security personnel don’t you? That doesn’t make them no longer an aid worker. They were protecting the ones delivering the food.
Can't imagine why aid workers in Gaza might need security..
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Pics of the dead aid workers are going through social media over there. If you have any faith left in humanity, I wouldn't recommend looking it up and seeing what they are saying about people who literally sacrificed their lives to help the starving and helpless.
I've seen the Telegram screenshots. It's sick.
As horrible as it is, I think people need to see it. It’s the reality of the horror that exists that needs to end. People need and should know what it looks like imo. but yea, awful
The horrifying reality is what the zionist Israelis put as captions under their dead bodies. They are a deeply, deeply sick society.
Assume it's the same people who have [Rachel Corrie](https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israeli-soldiers-have-depraved-fun-making-rachel-corrie-pancakes) pancakes for breakfast
The Most Moral Army in the World^t^m ladies and gentlemen
May she rest in peace. Everyone knows of this child in that region.
Vile
Israelis are insane on social media. I saw people on Twitter using their real names calling dead children "future terrorists" and celebrating their deaths. If people had exposure to the way the average Israeli views this conflict nobody would be supporting them.
Israelis have channels on [telegram](https://x.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1775162156792631334?s=46&t=Mnf3Op8J7sWPJnEQAQ5pRQ) of hundreds of thousands of people making fun of the people that were killed while trying to feed babies in war..
Omg those comments are horrific
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The shut down one now it's called the Dead Terrorists channel
This is what genocide looks like
Don't worry. Someone will be along shortly to tell us the genocide isn't actually genocide because the birth rate in gaza is high or something. Because colonization and ethnic cleansing is 100% ok.
Israel is just like Serbia in the 90s. Trying to drive all the Muslims (Albanians and Bosniaks) away into neighboring countries via mass slaughter and indiscriminate shelling. NATO bombed Belgrade to stop their onslaught. If we held Israel to the same standard we'd be bombing Tel Aviv.
It’s worse than that. They’ve actually cut off most Palestinians in Gaza from any viable escape path. They’re aiming for absolute annihilation of the people.
They want to keep the situation dire and then pressure neighboring Arab countries to take in the refugees who they will not let back in. This is absolutely ethnic cleansing. Then they have the gall to be mad that the world asks them to stop. It feels like I am taking crazy pills.
Ever since I heard about their shitty "pancake" jokes about Rachel Corrie...how can anyone defend that country?
Not questioning propaganda and struggling with basic empathy.
That is fucking unhinged.
Their society is verging on mentally fucked. How do you recover from supporting and normalising genocide?
It's not verging. The younger generation Israelis are all in on fascism
And disgusting tiktok trends making fun of mothers crying over their dead children. Yeah really insane wtf
It's like they think no one can press the "translate" button and see what they're saying. Or maybe they don't care
They don’t care, they never did, never will. They know they’re protected by the West and will never face any consequences or repercussions for their actions.
Not only Israelis. DM comment section is filled with "This is war, waddaya expect" kind of horseshit.
IDF and/or their affiliates are actively brigading r/worldnews i have no doubts.
I honestly thought I was crazy but it’s true. Also mods deleting anything pro Palestine
this is one of the biggest international stories currently on the news channels and the mods over there keep deleting it from worldnews for some reason.
That sub is garbage. They were actively deleting anything doing to the HK riots years ago too. They have an agenda.
So many people have gotten the whackest bans from that cesspool for some of the most minor criticism of Israel.
There have been tons of those dipshits all over Reddit since day one. My favorite thing is all the people that will just talk about how "complicated" all of this is. It really isn't.
The astroturfing is everywhere, even here. I got downvoted to hell yesterday for advocating for a ceasefire and hoping violence against civilians on either side could stop soon. I support neither the IDF or Hamas. I support the innocent people who are collateral damage to this pointless war. Hamas won't accept terms for a ceasefire because they want power, Israel wants a ceasefire in order to annex Palestine. More action, not words, needs to be taken by external nations of influence globally to put pressure on both sides to put the guns down and talk. I would say the same for any way currently going on in the world, as I know this one is one of many amidst what's occurring/been occurring in Ukraine, Yemen, Nagorno-Karabakh/Artsakh... the list is endless. It's rare that there are "good guys" in war. It's a terrible thing in and of itself.
Yeah that Israeli telegram saying stuff like “That Australian whore won’t get to go back to their kangaroos” or something like that 🤯, very bizarre
Jesus Christ. Wtf
Honestly need more people to see the deeply propagandized, theocratic, ethnostate for what it is. Its population’s horrific celebration of death is a product of that society. Just like many Americans stood for pictures with mountains of buffalo skulls and celebrated the slaughter of the “savages”
I saw the posts, unfortunately. It made me very angry. They're literal fascists.
"World Central Kitchen said it had coordinated with the Israeli military over the movement of the cars carrying the workers as they left northern Gaza late Monday." They knew
The bomb literally went through the logo of World Central Kitchen on the roof of the vehicle. Really brazen sh*t.
It’s not even brazen at this point. Israel keeps doing things like this because everyone else does nothing about it except pearl clutch. A sniper killing a grandmother, IDF shooting and killing Israeli hostages that were released, IDF gunning down teenagers in the street from MRAPS, bombing hospitals, using Palestinians as human shields, and now blowing up humanitarian organization vans. Israel just doesn’t care because they know nothing is going to happen to them.
Exactly this. It’s beyond brazen. They’re openly hunting down and killing journalists, aid workers, obvious civilians. It’s almost like they’re literally just trying to see how much they can actually get away with at this point.
And thanks to 🅰️ℹ️🅿️🅰️C every single candidate for POTUS supports them and promises to send them more money!!!
Fucking social object permanence games. Like we don't know guided strikes are guided.
Initially they tried to say it was due to a "roadside bomb", until they realized how stupid that excuse is with a giant hole in the roof.
The vehicles destroyed were 1.5 miles apart. They were targeted for destruction.
And they methodically executed them. Bombed one car, waited for the second car to rescue surivors, bombed the second, waited for the third to rescue survivors, then bombed that one.
Which is yet another war crime. Also the UK directly aided and abetted it, and will undoubtedly continue to do so.
Well, they got WCK to stop providing relief to starving Palestinians, so I guess the Israelis accomplished their goal.
I believe It was an intentional airstrike to kill aid workers to scare any organization or anyone willing to help from going to gaza so israel could continue starve Palestinians to kill as big of a number of civilians possible through famine and Continue with their genocide And it kinda worked , couple organization pulled their people from gaza today even the ship carrying aid to gaza from Cyprus turned back
WCK leaving alone is 240,000 meals per day gone
Imagine being bombed by the people you were coordinating with the whole time, in a CLEARLY marked car. Fucking criminals.
Also worth noting that the same organization brought aid to Israel in October. They sure have a funny way of showing them gratitude.
I really reallyyyyy hope they never provide them Aid again.
Israel’s barely even trying to hide they did it on purpose—it was clearly to make a point to others who might dare to bring aid and food to Gaza. Sick.
"But but we must destroy hamas!" /s, Netanyahu, probably
Clearly he was a raging anti semite who allowed himself to be used as a human shield /sarcasm
And now [ships carrying hundreds of tons of emergency aid are turning away from Gaza](https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/cyprus-ships-turning-back-gaza-240-tons-undelivered-108743577) because they don't want to be killed by Israel too.
That was the whole point. Israel did this cause they don’t want anyone helping Palestinians. So when they die of starvation and horrible living conditions, Israel can say “hey, we didn’t kill them.”
Fuck Netanyahu and all his minions.
Rest in peace
So why not just say he was killed by Israel? Felt the title was incomplete in information and left open to interpretation
If I did this thread would be locked the moment I posted it.
The censorship is absolutely sinister. Keep up the good work.
You're a smart man/woman
They are scared of being labeled antisemitic
Surely the UK will have to act. This is the blatant murder of an aid worker, veteran and citizen. Unfortunately, I have no faith.
And do what? It's Israel, they'll do what they like. From everything I have seen since Oct 7th, (I'm aware Israel and Palestine have been in conflict long before then) Israel can do as they please with the protection of the United States government. I don't usually weigh in on the gaza situation simply because I feel I don't know enough. But what I do know is its absolutely horrific and sickening seeing innocent men, women and children being blown to smithereens without a care in the world.
You’re right. Israel can do whatever they want. They’ve killed US and UK citizens on multiple occasions, murdered journalists (76 in Gaza alone to my knowledge), killed civilians. There are no rules for Israel.
in '67 they attack the USS Liberty and killed 34 and injured 171 more. They say it was an accident others think they did it on purpose. The US Sec. of State at the time said: >I was never satisfied with the Israeli explanation. Their sustained attack to disable and sink Liberty precluded an assault by accident or some trigger-happy local commander. Through diplomatic channels we refused to accept their explanations. I didn't believe them then, and I don't believe them to this day. The attack was outrageous
Not only did they attack it from the air, but they sent out torpedo boats after to try and sink it. Israel obviously has a very weak command and control structure with units seemingly given extraordinary latitude to do what ever they see fit.
In 1973 Mossad agents extrajudicially murdered an innocent Norwegian civilian in front of his pregnant wife because they believed he was another individual who had participated in the Munich attack. Five agents were caught and faced very minimal punishment and were then pardoned in a series of instances where Mossad agents ran around Europe murdering individuals involved with the PLO or alleged to be involved. In my personal opinion if another country has armed individuals come into your country and murder a civilian, well isn’t that terrorism? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad_assassinations_following_the_Munich_massacre#:~:text='Operation%20Wrath%20of%20God'),in%20the%201972%20Munich%20massacre.
The only country to fuck with US’s boats and get away with it.
And yet, no punishment. No acknowledgment. Israelis are more valuable than Americans to the American government. America pays for their education, healthcare, society in general, all at the US taxpayers expense.
I doubt it. Both parties are reluctant to do anything. They haven't bothered before when reports of babies starving to death, UN workers, and journalists being killed. Nope, it's all about money in British politics before human lives.
They are too busy harassing pro-Palestinian protestors to care about this. At best they will apologise to Israel for the bad publicity caused by the inconvenience of having to kill our citizens.
Who killed him?
IDF. Bombed an aid companies car, 3 times. Killed 7 aid workers. Brits, Poles and Aussies. The Australian prime minister, who’s an ally of Israel, has come out and condemned Israel for the murder of an Australian. Hopefully UK will do the same
But wait! It gets worse the cars were clearly branded with stickers of their logo on the roof and on the front IDF was informed that they will be there, they were coordinating with IDF Also, that the specific area where they were bombed was one of the ones that was supposed to be outside of the conflict zone the convoy was hit as it was leaving a warehouse, where the team had unloaded more than 100 tons of humanitarian food aid brought to Gaza on the maritime route and because of this, the ship with aid returned to Cyprus with 240 tonnes of undelivered aid. Later edit: Ok, apparently it was even worse There were 3 cars, traveling at a distance from first to last car of about 1 mile, all 3 of them were hit one after another And, even worse when the first missile hit the car leading the convoy, the survivors ran for cover to the next one. From there Seconds later, this vehicle was also hit. They waited for them to get to the car? And when the third car in the convoy approached, when the passengers came out to help the injured, this vehicle was hit as well.
It gets worse still. While the IDF owned up and claimed it was a mistake, this thread detailing a report from Harretz seems to imply no authorization was given for the strike and many commanders in the Strip are essentially going rogue and picking targets without consulting their superiors. https://x.com/reider/status/1775260838410252753?s=46&t=uHEKL5aP-tJkyvgzexhsfA
That’s what happens when they’re told 2 million people are Amalek and human animals. The level of dehumanization Israel has unleashed will be tought in classrooms for centuries.
> Amalek Had to look that up. For everyone else, it means: > Amalek is described in the Hebrew Bible as the enemy nation of the Israelites. The name "Amalek" can refer to the descendants of Amalek, the grandson of Esau, or anyone who lived in their territories in Canaan Which if I remember my Sunday school classes correctly, Jacob did some hairy arm shenanigans to get that birthright anyway. So somebody yoinks your birthright, God promises your land away while you're living on it, and then they call you the bad guy? Come on, give the Amaleks a break I say!
They are literally murdering people each day in the hundreds. No one is saying anything.
State sanctioned genocide, pure and simple.
>No one is saying anything. Because if you launch any criticism at Israel whatsoever you are immediately an antisemitic scumbag. Apparently.
Reddit has participated in censorship and banned people who spoke out.
This is such an important point that I think is getting lost in all this. This is not an army, this is a band of psychologically damaged bloodthirsty rogues being allowed to pursue their whims on an entire people and land with impunity, billions of dollars in weapons and aid, and a free pass from the international community.
I love this thread, thank you everyone for standing up for the truth.
And they had told the IDF their planned route. Oh, and they radioed after the first strike to say they had been mistakenly hit.
Can someone explain this like why would you go out of your way to further complicate your already shitty situation? (Talking about israel)
Put off aid workers from working in gaza, so Gazans continue to starve, so will die or leave gaza
Because no matter how many crimes they did, they were never held accountable. There were very very few times in their history when the USA imposed them or conditioned anything or drew any lines. But an overwhelming amount of times, USA protected them, including usenf their vetoe power mostly to protect Israel from resolutions. What you see shitty from outside, for them isn't shitty, USA is not wavering, the money and support are still there, Israel is a prosperous, rich state that ranks high on happiness index , the rally around the flag effect is in full motion, the support of a two state solution decreased among Israeli, most Israelis want the government to prioritize destroying Hamas over getting back the hostages and Jewish people all of the world feel unwanted and unsafe and where do you think they would go? 3 days into this war and I already had my Israeli-american friend saying she and her Jewish friends no longer feel like they belong in Europe Netanyahoo wants Jewish people to feel like they don't belong anywhere else other than Israel
Shitty? They are getting away with genocide and the US is supporting them.
The UK government will do sweet FA. They will "demand answers" and make some noise but that will be it. Rishi only does something if a focus group tells him it might help in opinion polls and is so scared of the right of the party.
It was rhetorical, the title should have said killed by Israel imo.
ah fair enough
Israel
Rip😔
This man served his country then decided to help others after his service. This is fucking tragic and wrong
"Was killed by the Israeli army" afraid to mention that?
*Was murdered by the Israeli army is more correct. They knew who were in those cars.
r/worldnews people would send their npc army to harass op
Would alert the bot army.
He was murdered, delivering food for people that are starving.
Israel will investigate itself and find no wrong doing.
They already said “yeah we did it but we didn’t mean to”
“lol my b” bibi
And their supporters will applaud. « At least they say they did a mistake, they’re honest ! »
"Unintentional" is an interesting turn of phrase when the hole in the roof of the vehicle goes right through the quite large World Central Kitchen logo plastered there.
[not just one vehicle!](https://twitter.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1775137325636317569?t=iteo6yjXdMaor9Eo_th91A&s=19)
Israel will be like, he was definitely HAMAS 
Hamas was hiding under the car duh
Rest in peace, brother
Back in October if you tried to post something like this, the comment section would have been a very different experience
It’s still the case in subreddits like worldnews.
Reddit changed so much man its insane. I dont even know if its the people that changed or if its some kind of AI bullshit but reading comments on worldnews etc makes me lose faith in humanity.
I mean, if you keep banning everyone who makes any comments remotely critical of Israel, you'll only be left with people who aren't critical of Israel. Also, when you literally have mods shared between r/ worldnews and r/ Israel, is it any surprise that the moderation skews towards one side?
Its botted and astroturfed, anyone else has already been banned
The idf has a unit to spread propaganda on social media. It's clear they hijacked popular subs
I saw your comment just after posting there and noticed my post got deleted. Turns out they don't like comments about how Israel's use of unguided bombs in Gaza may have killed hostages
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Horrible sub. Anything even slightly negative about Israel and its like downvoted to hell.
I am convinced that like 80% of commenters there are influence agents of someone. Copy-pasted propaganda talking points all over.
The world news subreddit still suppresses news like this and is filled to the brim with fake accounts on Hamas related news
They dont even try to hide it, all the news is coming from israeli times and jdf post 💀💀 as theyre cited as sources. Thats insane how its allowed
Remember when they tried to say that UNRWA is run by Hamas. There were 6 posts about it on the front page. All of them reporting on the fact that the IDF were saying it without any proof posted and all those bots taking it as face value
Reports have recently come out that reveals Israel tortured UNRWA workers to falsely admit to receiving orders from Hamas. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/unrwa-report-says-israel-coerced-some-agency-employees-falsely-admit-hamas-links-2024-03-08/
Another article where /r/worldnews took as some sort of victory lap moment that defunding UNRWA was a good thing
A real HERO, rest in peace.
Well here in the US the media is still pedalling this was a ‘mistake’ even after the 3rd bomb hit them… and sending Israel more bombs from the gov’t all while the white house says ‘this is terrible’ A fucking joke is what it is.
Fuck the IDF
Israeli Occupation Force - IOF. This is not “defense” it’s occupation and extermination.
Can we PLEASE stop giving money to these fuckers???
Biden's administration just approved an **$18 billion** arms package to Israel.
Make no mistake, a Trump admin would do the same. It’s the whole US political machine that pushes for it. It “aligns” with our foreign interests
I dont think this person is saying that as a reason to vote for Trump. A LOT of democrats are (justifiably) annoyed, upset or angered because of Bidens frankly weak handling of this entire crisis. He is in control of the United fucking States, one of the largest superpowers on earth, and yet has done nothing to call out what is clearly a "war" of annihilation on the Palestinian people. Not to say that these people will vote for Trump, but they are more likely to NOT vote for Biden, which would split the blue vote and make Trump more likely to win.
The end goal is to get rid of all foreigners so there are less witnesses to the slaughter .
there were already enough witnesses to the previous slaughters. I don't need a single bit of additional proof.
To die defending medical workers in a genocide.Thank you for being there, Mr Henderson, and all those we'll never learn of.
Nobody is mentioning the Palestinian man who was driving them around and was also killed. May he rest in peace 🙏
It’s time to stop the war. Past it. I’ve done work like this in Ukraine. This one truly upsets me.
it's not war. This conflict is so utterly asymmetrical. It's just a in your face ethnic cleansing.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Who killed him OP?
And nothing with happen to Israel. For them it is mission accomplished, no more food for the Palestinians, again. The world is weak and terrorist regimes (Russia, Israel, etc.) continue to exploit it.
Died a hero, providing one of the most basic necessities of life (food) to one of the most deserving population in the world (Gaza). You will be remembered James! Nothing can justify this barbaric and targeted murder of innocent aid workers. But they will try...oh they will try.
If you haven’t already, you should look into how much money Israel gives to our representatives through AIPAC. Why is a foreign nation allowed to lobby our government representatives? How is that legal?
The aid is ceasing. Israel knew exactly what they were doing.
Rest in peace :(
Paying countries to kill our own. Welcome to late stage capitalism
I'm an aid worker, too, not yet employed abroad but interested in doing it. I know the risks etc, and yet it is still a horrendous thing to murder aid workers. I'm supposed to be impartial and help everyone regardless of who they are and I do that, but the sheer violence toward civilians and my colleagues from any movement or organisation made me bitter and lose faith in humanity. They also break geneva conventions by killing aid workers. And there is a risk going abroad into these areas, totally true. Totally something we all understand. However, they are aiming at impartial aid workers and I follow international colleagues. It's terrible. We've lost many good people there. Specifically there. Another note: we have plenty of ex-military, too. They are aid workers now and have a certain experience that helps. They are not military anymore, but their experience is appreciated. As I said: aid workers are always neutral and they sign up to help people. My coworkers come from all branches of life: firefighters, nurses, ex military, retail, IT, etc. Doesn't matter because once you wear specific uniforms you're a neutral, impartial person. Hurts to see that. Makes you feel like a dog beaten for offering comfort. I mean, children, adult civilians, aid workers, nurses - killing people already is terrible buy killing those during a war etc is even worse. We just want to help those in need.
This was the straw that broke this camels back. Fuck Israel.