The U.N. World Health Organization says it's reached an agreement with Israel for limited pauses in fighting in Gaza to allow for polio vaccinations for hundreds of thousands of children.
I think there’s a massive difference between some trigger-happy idiot of a soldier at a checkpoint firing ten shots and injuring nobody and a whole series of miscommunications and mistakes leading to seven dead aid workers through a series of air strikes.
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Israel will make sure the Palestinian children get
theirshot.Here come the accidents!
Guess which convoy will be shot at next?
The last time this happened, the IDF fired the officers who were responsible:
https://www.politico.eu/article/israeli-military-forces-admit-serious-mistake-killing-7-food-aid-world-central-kitchen-workers/
And yet something similar happened again this week.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/wfp-suspends-gaza-movment-after-vehicle-hit-by-bullets-near-israeli-checkpoint-2024-08-28/
I think there’s a massive difference between some trigger-happy idiot of a soldier at a checkpoint firing ten shots and injuring nobody and a whole series of miscommunications and mistakes leading to seven dead aid workers through a series of air strikes.
The Israelis are going to bomb the immunization clinics, aren’t they?