UN: Israel kills driver on aid mission to Gaza

UN: Israel kills driver on aid mission to Gaza

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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – A U.N. official in the Gaza Strip says Israeli forces have fired on a truck on a U.N. aid mission and killed the driver.

U.N. spokesman Adnan Abu Hasna says the incident took place during a lull declared by Israel to allow humanitarian aid to enter the territory.

He says the U.N. coordinated the delivery with Israel, and the vehicle and was marked with a U.N. flag and insignia when it was shot in northern Gaza.

The Israeli army said it was investigating.

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Now we all know about the horrible things that happen during war, well folks this is one of them, a truck driver killed while attenpting to deliver much needed aid. Now don't confuse this incident as trying to downplay any of the human lives lost in this conflict. I bring it to light in order to prove that war is wrong and many times innocent civilians will loose their lives in the war and become another statistic very unfortunate.

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It's a war zone - not a day camp. It's a dangerous situation.
These things happen in war. The 'smoke of war' and all ...
The incident is being investigated.

reply to post by FlyersFan


who will investigate?
Israel will not let foreigners in to investigate because they do not trust them, they accuse them of being Bias.
the same excuse they gave for not allowing anyone but themselves investigate the UN school shootings

reply to post by FlyersFan


Israel have openly killed UN monitors before because they were in the way

and now in a CEASE FIRE

isreal does it again.

reply to post by Harlequin


don't tell that to the pro-israelis(israhellis) ... or they will call you anti-semitic

lol, most people don't seem to understand that israelis are anti-semitic too , as palestinians and arabs are semitic races too

I don't think that an accurate investigation will commence, Israel will most likely write this off as an accident or at best mistaken target(s) but in the interim it just goes to show that even those in a war zone with great humanitarian intentions sometimes fall victim to the violence, another thing I wanted to point out is how the actual headline reads, it almost indicates intent on the part of Israel to kill this man IMO,maybe some more of that famous MSM opinion swaying in action?

The words `IDF` and `Investigation` dont live together well


the same IDF that was accused to shooting an american dead on TV in bethlehem.

they investigated that , said `no IDF soldiers shot him` - even though the recording showed , clearly the soldier shoulder his weapon and fire - with a full face shot of the killer


the IDF investigation said it wasn`t an IDF soildier.

We all know they have done this many times before, so we can leave it upto the person and there own judgement.

the un do nothing to israel anyway, as we have seen in the past.

Isn't it obvious? Hamas was using the Truck as a human shield ...

reply to post by andy1033


Your right, their will be no reprecusions to Israel for this or any other atrocities they commited sorry for the one liner but right is right.

[edit on 8-1-2009 by alyosha1981]

Originally posted by Obliterated
Isn't it obvious? Hamas was using the Truck as a human shield

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Wouldn't the driver have noticed them moving close to his vehicle? or shooting close by and ran?

Originally posted by Obliterated
Isn't it obvious? Hamas was using the Truck as a human shield

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evidence ?? seems like BS from you

reply to post by Harlequin


This is no surprise. It's the IDF which was known as "Irgun" (the terrorist organization that killed more people in a single attack than any other terrorist attack in the M.E. by bombing the King David Hotel full of British people) in the 40s.

Irgun then was renamed to Haganah and then Haganah is now what we call the Israeli Defense Forces (aka IDF).

reply to post by alyosha1981


If the the US can mistakenly strike the Chinese Embassy during the Kosovo, one should expect Israel to mistakenly hit an innocent place or person as well during their war. There is too much confusion for it not to happen. It is to be expected and has probably happened during every war since the beginning of time.

[edit on 8-1-2009 by jam321]

[edit on 8-1-2009 by jam321]

It should also be noted that in killing this man, many others would suffer from the lack of aid that he was attempting to bring, Not to say he was the only one bringing aid but how many countless lives could he have positively effected?

Originally posted by jam321
reply to post by alyosha1981

 

If the the US can mistakenly

strike the Chinese Embassy during the Kosovo, one should expect Israel to mistakenly hit an innocent place or person as well during their war. There is too much confusion for it not to happen. It is to be expected and has probably happened during every war since the beginning of time.

[edit on 8-1-2009 by jam321]

[edit on 8-1-2009 by jam321]

Correct, but these incidents should not be "written off" as " oh well, it happens" and does Israel follow the Geneva conventions?

Just to note, Israel has kept relief workers from sending aid to civilians in Palestine, by not allowing the medic staff to drive to the injured to pick them up. Workers who were not allowed to drive ambulances were seen walking 2 km to reach the dead or injured, and then had to carry the people back on foot to their ambulance.

Israeli snipers have also been targeting children and killing them with live ammo in the recent days.

Video is very graphic. It shows the Palestinian children with bullet hole wounds in their chest from Israeli snipers, from the recent Israel invasion into Gaza in the past week.



[edit on Thu Jan 8th 2009 by DJMessiah]

Sorry. I was being sarcastic. I apologise if that was unclear.

After seeing that excuse being used to justify the killing of civilians on almost every thread regarding the conflict, then reading the part about how it would be "investigated" which translates into "what excuse can we use for this one" that line came to mind.

I'm sick of the justification used by the pro-israelis and was just trying to make a point of how stupid it looks when someone uses such lies to mask the truth.

Why would they let aid through when they could have prevented the need for it in the first place. These people have no morals or ethics. This isn't war, it is cold blooded murder.

reply to post by FlyersFan


This happened during the 3hr ceasefire,not during the confusion of battle,so what reason is there for Israel to open fire on a clearly marked UN Aid truck?