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World Central Kitchen is demanding an independent investigation on the strikes.

Jonathan Duguay, a close friend of Flickinger who was working in Cyprus for World Central Kitchen at the time of the attack, told The Canadian Press in an interview that Flickinger wasn’t afraid because the aid deliveries were co-ordinated with Israel’s assistance. Article content

“We had an agreement with the IDF,” said Duguay. “There was a special route. They knew where we were.”

Flickinger joined World Central Kitchen last fall to help recover from PTSD developed during his tour in Afghanistan. He and his partner, Sandy Leclerc, had recently moved to Costa Rica with their son, who is 18 months old.

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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't believe Israel was intentionally targeting World Central Kitchen. This whole incident is a massive PR disaster for them, especially given that the victims were citizens of powerful and influential countries doing one of the most selfless humanitarian jobs possible.

Having said that, this is the kind of mistake that only happens when a military's targeting rules are basically "commit war crimes". Like, maybe their target was white civilian vans being used as ambulances by the Palestinians, and they just blew up the wrong white civilian vans. The difference is that killing Palestinian doctors and paramedics doesn't generate the same international headlines.

Just this week I read a story about how Israel is using AI to identify targets to assassinate. At first they were just targeting senior Hamas leaders, but at this stage they have tens of thousands of targets including police and civil defense workers. Technically these are affiliated with Hamas, but only because Hamas is the official government of the Gaza strip.

How do they kill them? It's hard to target and kill them when they're out in the field, so the Israelis wait until they return home and then they bomb their houses, killing them and their families: "for every junior Hamas operative that Lavender marked, it was permissible to kill up to 15 or 20 civilians"

What do they call the system that alerts them when the targets return home, and can now be targeted for a bombing? I shit you not, it's called "Where's Daddy?"

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

You missed the part where they literally coordinated with the IDF on their trip, didn't you? The only reasons this could happen are intentional or criminal negligence. Given how well this fits with the trends, it's hard to imagine it was negligence.