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In reply to the discussion: Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says [View all]AloeVera
(3,672 posts)90. Not quick, just maybe a little more up-to-date and not so gullible.
And a little jaded after witnessing the horror of the last 19 months and the many lies and propaganda needed to sustain it.
So on May 27, at an "aid centre" in Rafah set up by GHF, a crowd of the starved overran the centre and were "fired upon". One person died and 48 were wounded from gunshot wounds. The IDF, guarding from a distance, said it only fired "warning shots".
The crowd of Palestinians broke through fences Tuesday around the distribution site where thousands had gathered. An Associated Press journalist heard Israeli tank and gunfire and saw a military helicopter firing flares.
At one time I too believed in the tooth fairy, but some still do apparently - as grown adults!
Then, on May 28th - the incident you refer to:
Palestinians burst into the UNs World Food Program warehouse Wednesday in central Gaza. Two people were fatally crushed in the crowd, while two others died of gunshot wounds, officials at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital said.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/israel-hamas-war/article/crowd-is-fired-on-at-chaotic-gaza-aid-distribution-site-killing-at-least-1-and-wounding-48/
It was a WFP warehouse with goods destined for distribution. Hamas was not hoarding food there as you claim. Unless you believe the WFP was hoarding food for Hamas lol. These were starving people, mixed in with the usual looting criminal gangs that Israel strangely has allowed to flourish.
Then, a few days later, the Rafah aid massacre occurs.
All this was warned about by the UN and real aid agencies. Israel didn't listen because it has its own agenda of starving and killing the Palestinians out of Gaza - meaning creating conditions so inhuman -as if more inhumanity is even possible - that they will "volunteer" to "emigrate". It fits well into that plan. It's disgusting and we should all be condemning it instead of helping with the narrative needed to make it happen.

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Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says [View all]
muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2025
OP
"Gaza aid group denies claims of IDF attack near Rafah distribution point."
madaboutharry
Jun 2025
#3
If 6 times more people think someone is wrong, in opinion or fact, that 1 person probably is wrong.
Exp
Jun 2025
#101
It can also mean that 6 times more people amounts to only 6 people who think I am wrong.
Beastly Boy
Jun 2025
#102
the orginization that calimed certain people were on its board when they werent?
moonshinegnomie
Jun 2025
#23
The organization that was at the scene to witness the event and videotape it.
Beastly Boy
Jun 2025
#27
Greatest excuse ever invented to indiscriminately murder and mass-starve civilians in aid of ethnic cleansing
AloeVera
Jun 2025
#44
Hey, our own American media runs lies every day originating from a terrorist organization
Jack Valentino
Jun 2025
#79
And we all know that thre is not a single terrorist leader in Gaza who would benefit from instigating violence
Beastly Boy
Jun 2025
#4
Sure, it's not the lying "local reporters" that BBC admits it employs, it's the BBC.
Beastly Boy
Jun 2025
#6
"There were many martyrs, including women," the 40-year-old resident said.
AZLD4Candidate
Jun 2025
#7
I would also wonder how Hamas fighters could be be hiding in plain sight
AZLD4Candidate
Jun 2025
#68
And the elected Hamas government that did the action that started this war gets off scot free?
AZLD4Candidate
Jun 2025
#15
Following that logic, China should attack Japan because those wounds aren't healed.
AZLD4Candidate
Jun 2025
#77
I read Harretz, the newspaper that netanyaho is threatening to ban in Israel....
Butterflylady
Jun 2025
#21
"Why is it so hard to believe Palestinians?" Which Palestinians are you talking about?
Beastly Boy
Jun 2025
#40
Just the fact that thousands of people have to get up before dawn to wait for food burns my soul.
mjvpi
Jun 2025
#62
"Gaza is the low point in my lifetime as far as the extremes of what humans can do to each other."
EX500rider
Jun 2025
#78
Point taken. I am not young. I was not aware of my country directly supplying high tech weaponry.....
mjvpi
Jun 2025
#82
No "walking back" or claim that the info in the OP is "lies" in those excerpts (nt)
muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2025
#54
Your OP cites The Guardian: "Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says"
Beastly Boy
Jun 2025
#71
you mean th egroup that murdered 15 aid workers and tried to cover it up?
moonshinegnomie
Jun 2025
#39
Hamas murdered 15 aid workers and tried to cover it up? Why isn't it in the news?
Beastly Boy
Jun 2025
#45
Fucking insane, hateful bastards. This shit just doesn't stop. Who are you going to believe? Just view the before and
Exp
Jun 2025
#37
Is the UN using food as bait to..(well, I am not sure who they are supposed to bait and for what purpose)?
Beastly Boy
Jun 2025
#41
It's not that complicated. Say, much less complicated than bombing an entire culture out of existence.
Exp
Jun 2025
#57
Call me crazy, but I think a massacre not happening at the food distribution center is a pretty convincing
Beastly Boy
Jun 2025
#94
No, that's the BBC saying an Al Jazeera journalist made a false claim about a video
muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2025
#85
From the OP's link: "Officials at the field hospital did not say who opened fire..."
lapucelle
Jun 2025
#99