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muriel_volestrangler

(105,622 posts)
Sat Mar 15, 2025, 03:06 PM Mar 2025

Aid workers killed in Israeli air strike in Gaza, charity tells BBC [View all]

Source: BBC

A team of charity workers has been killed in Israeli strikes in northern Gaza, the UK-registered Al Khair Foundation has told the BBC.

The charity said eight people - including its volunteers and independent journalists documenting their activities - were killed when their vehicles were targeted on Saturday in what Hamas described as a "blatant violation" of the ceasefire agreement with Israel.
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Qasim Rashid Ahmad, founder and chairman of the charity, told the BBC the team was in the area to set up tents and document it for the charity's own promotion efforts.

He said that the cameramen came back to the car and were hit, while its team members who rushed to the scene were then struck by an Israeli drone which had followed them when they went to the charity's second car.

Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20d4ylyx57o

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Can't have aid workers feeding starving Palestinians and giving them fresh water. Lonestarblue Mar 2025 #1
What Hamas did was despicable nowforever Mar 2025 #2
Meek enid602 Mar 2025 #3
A bit more about the UK-registered Al Khair Foundation which reported the incident: Beastly Boy Mar 2025 #4
That is not the agency whose workers were killed. AloeVera Mar 2025 #5
Coincidentally, it's also a known terrorist front. Huh. Imagine that. Hellbound Hellhound Mar 2025 #6
A search for "al khair foundation" in the database of UK-registered companies returned 220,585 matches Beastly Boy Mar 2025 #7
Only one exact match, and you only have to scroll past one from the top. It's even helpfully marked with a line for you. AloeVera Mar 2025 #8
My point is that you made a claim, and I decided to check it. Beastly Boy Mar 2025 #9
No, you made the original claim and it was *I* who decided to check it. AloeVera Mar 2025 #10
You checking the original claim and me checking your response are not mutually exclusive, are they? Beastly Boy Mar 2025 #11
Here is the correct foundation, I found it instantly, and it is NOT at all terrorism linked, others here are giving the Celerity Mar 2025 #12
Thank you, but I found no information there about their employees, whose names Beastly Boy Mar 2025 #13
Or the IDF is making up the "terrorist links" for the individuals. muriel_volestrangler Mar 2025 #14
I have yet to hear of a single instance of successful challenge to IDF upon their publishing the identities Beastly Boy Mar 2025 #15
I don't think "verifiable" means what you think it does. Or "facts". (nt) muriel_volestrangler Mar 2025 #18
I think both "verifiable" and "facts" means exactly what I think it means. (nt) Beastly Boy Mar 2025 #21
Thanks for the chuckle! AloeVera Mar 2025 #20
Thanks for having a sense of humor! Beastly Boy Mar 2025 #22
This sentence is odd: maxsolomon Mar 2025 #16
I don't know if you've ever had contact with a charity before muriel_volestrangler Mar 2025 #17
That makes it sound like they weren't setting them up for use by displaced Gazans maxsolomon Mar 2025 #19
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