World Food Programme suspends staff movements in Gaza after Israeli forces fired on a vehicle near a Gaza checkpoint.

The World Food Programme (WFP) has announced a pause in the movement of its employees in the Gaza Strip “until further notice” after one of its vehicles was hit by gunfire just metres from an Israeli-controlled checkpoint.

UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric blamed Israel for the attack, telling reporters in New York that the “clearly marked” humanitarian vehicle was “struck 10 times” by Israeli gunfire, including with bullets targeting front windows.

Five of the bullets were on the driver’s side and some on the windscreen.

Dujarric said the convoy’s movements had been coordinated with the Israeli military and it had clearance to approach.

  • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 days ago

    Even whilst supposedly making amends they’ve preserved the fundamental racist thinking that underpinned Nazism by going with “we have a debt to a race” rather than “we have a debt to the victims”.

    Because of that, they de facto just changed who they deem ubermenschen (“Jews are good”) and untermenschen (“Muslims are backwards and violent”) without ditching the actual XIX cenrury notion so beloved by Nazis that race dictates the character and worth of a person.

    You see the same in many other nations, especially in the Anglo-Saxon world, but none the less such racism is especially poignant when the nation that created Nazism is militarily helping a new Holocaust backed by reasons which ultimately trace back to their own vontinued practice of ethnic-discrimination.