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AloeVera

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5. That is not the agency whose workers were killed.
Sat Mar 15, 2025, 10:47 PM
Mar 2025

The Qawafil Al Khair Association you are referring to seems is a local Gaza-based organization.

However the agency whose workers were killed is a U.K.- based Muslim international organization called Al Khair Foundation, founded in 2003. They have worked in disaster zones from Kashmir to Haiti.

Al-Khair Foundation is a UK-based international NGO providing humanitarian support, international development, emergency aid and disaster relief in some of the world’s most deprived areas. Established in 2003 and rapidly growing into one of the leading Muslim charities in the UK, Al-Khair Foundation also looks to tackle issues prevalent in the UK as well, such as unemployment, education, women’s empowerment and domestic violence.


In case you doubt this is the agency in question, they have confirmed it:

Our thoughts are with the families, friends, and colleagues of the victims during this difficult time.

It is with great sadness and regret that we announce the demise in Gaza of eight of our team’s dedicated humanitarian aid workers. They were killed in violation of the agreed ceasefire in a drone airstrike.

The exact circumstances are still being established but we refute utterly any suggestion that those who were killed were militant or in any way connected with Hamas.

It is with deep sadness and regret that we report the tragic loss of eight dedicated humanitarian aid workers in Gaza. The individuals, who were part of a relief mission, lost their lives in a drone airstrike that occurred despite an agreed ceasefire being in place.


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https://alkhair.org/humanitarian-aid-workers-killed-in-gaza-drone-strike/

When will Israel stop killing aid workers? The goal seems to be to deprive Palestinians of all necessities of life. Surely we can agree that is terribly wrong.

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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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