Patrice Greanville
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The following (as well as the video above) are by ABC News. The words and passages we regard as shameless propaganda are marked in red. Contextually, the US media, in most if not all its reports on the Gaza genocide, fail to ask the critical question: If the White House, and the rest of the collective West leaders and officials are so deeply moved and concerned about the suffering of Palestinians, if this or that act by the IDF is "intolerable", "outrageous," "unacceptable", etc, etc., why do they never simply stop the flow of weapons and money to the depraved Zionist regime?
By ABC News
Seven aid workers with World Central Kitchen [WCK] were killed during an Israel Defense Forces attack in Gaza, the food-relief organization said, adding that it plans to pause its operations in the region.
"This is not only an attack against WCK, this is an attack on humanitarian organizations showing up in the most dire of situations where food is being used as a weapon of war," CEO Erin Gore said in a statement. "This is unforgivable."
The dead included Australian, Polish, British and Palestinian aid workers, WCK said. One worker was a dual American-Canadian citizen, the organization said.
A Palestinian inspects a vehicle where employees from the World Central Kitchen were killed in an Israeli airstrike, in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza, Strip Apr. 2, 2024.© Ahmed Zakot/Reuters
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made his first comments about the deadly incident as he was leaving a hospital after undergoing successful hernia surgery.
"Unfortunately, in the last day, there was a tragic case of our forces unintentionally hitting innocent people in the Gaza Strip," Netanyahu said. "It happens in war, we check it to the end. We are in contact with the governments, and we will do everything so that this thing does not happen again."
World Central Kitchen workers gather around the bodies of their colleagues after they were transferred to Al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Apr. 2, 2024.© Haitham Imad/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
WCK, a non-governmental organization, has been operating in Gaza for months and has said it's served more than 33 million meals since the start of the conflict. It operates over 60 community kitchens in Gaza with the help of about 400 Palestinians on the ground.
U.S. officials are "heartbroken and deeply troubled" by the strike, Adrienne Watson, spokesperson for the White House National Security Council, said in a statement on social media.
"Humanitarian aid workers must be protected as they deliver aid that is desperately needed, and we urge Israel to swiftly investigate what happened," Watson said.
[As we said earlier, these pronouncements are ridiculous, transparently hypocritical. Contrary to appearances, the US controls the script in the Middle East, not Israel. So why doesn't the US simply stop all aid to Israel? Not to mention compel it to open the gates to food, medical supplies and other essentials, pronto1, in fact yesterday. As well as cease all indiscriminate air strikes?—Ed]
Note how ABC News is quick to plant a misleading disclaimer right on the first screen of this report. According to most MSM this attack was an "unintentional" event.
A representative from the organization said WCK was still gathering details about the incident that took place early Tuesday morning.
"This is a tragedy. Humanitarian aid workers and civilians should NEVER be a target. EVER," the representative said in a statement.
The IDF said in a statement that it was conducting a "thorough review at the highest levels to understand the circumstances of this tragic incident." [Yea, believe that if you like. It's pure yada yada.—Ed]
"The IDF makes extensive efforts to enable the safe delivery of humanitarian aid, and has been working closely with WCK in their vital efforts to provide food and humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza," the statement said. [Bullshit—Ed]
Also on Tuesday, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant referred to the tragic nature of the incident and emphasized the importance of conducting a thorough, professional investigation, which will be followed by the implementation of lessons learned. Gallant highlighted the important work undertaken by international aid organizations, as well as Israel’s commitment to working closely with partner countries and organizations and facilitating the distribution of humanitarian aid. [More bullshit]
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday in Paris that the U.S. has spoken to the Israeli government about the missile strike on the WCK team.
"We've spoken directly to the Israeli government about this particular incident we've urged the swift, thorough and impartial investigation to understand exactly what happened," Blinken said.
Blinken said the seven victims "join a record number of humanitarian workers who have been killed in this particular conflict." (Yea, guess why and by whom.)
"I can only say that for so many of us, we extend our condolences to the loved ones, to the families, friends, colleagues of those who lost their lives, or who were injured," Blinken said. "They have been doing extraordinary, brave work day-in and day-out, and critical work ... starting with the most basic thing of all: food. These people are heroes. They run into the fire. They show the best of what humanity has to offer. They have to be protected." (More bullshit.)
Officials in the United Kingdom were "urgently working" to verify whether British citizens had been killed, David Cameron, the U.K.'s foreign secretary, said in a statement. [More bullshit, or shall we say, bollocks!]
"We have called on Israel to immediately investigate and provide a full, transparent explanation of what happened," he said. (More bullshit. Toothless yapping to appease the public.)
Jose Andres, the chef and founder of WCK, said he was "heartbroken" and "grieving" for the families and friends of the WCK workers who were killed.
"Today @WCKitchen lost several of our sisters and brothers in an IDF air strike in Gaza," he wrote on X.
He added, "I am heartbroken and grieving for their families and friends and our whole WCK family. These are people…angels…I served alongside in Ukraine, Gaza, Turkey, Morocco, Bahamas, Indonesia. They are not faceless…they are not nameless. The Israeli government needs to stop this indiscriminate killing. It needs to stop restricting humanitarian aid, stop killing civilians and aid workers, and stop using food as a weapon. No more innocent lives lost. Peace starts with our shared humanity. It needs to start now."
IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari said in a taped message that he had spoken with Andres and "expressed the deepest condolences." (More bullshit)
"We will be opening a probe to examine this serious incident further. This will help us reduce the risk of such an event from occurring again," he said, adding, "We will get to the bottom of this and we will share our findings transparently." (Yea. You do that. While you are at it, tell us also why the Israeli soldiers murdered hundreds of people and medical personnel at the Al Shifa hospital. See below for more on that particular outrage.)
ABC News' Joe Simonetti and Bill Hutchinson contributed to this story.
SECOND: Israel's deliberate destruction of Gaza's healthcare system
That includes the systematic murdering of medical personnel —doctors, nurses, orderlies, medical technicians, etc.-anyone wearing scrubs or connected with health services—and destroying all hospitals and clinics to the ground by bombing and fire, including their expensive diagnostic and therapeutic equipment.
LBCWorld Central Kitchen have confirmed reports that seven of their aid workers have been killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, amongst them a British national. Nick Ferrari was due to question the IDF's Peter Lerner on this and more. He has pulled out of the interview... Ferrari was also joined by Dr Nick Maynard, a consultant surgeon who regularly works in Gaza with Medical Aid for Palestinians as the IDF report that they have withdrawn from Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza after two weeks of violent destruction. Listen to the full show on Global Player: https://app.af.globalplayer.com/Br0x/...
Nicolo (Nick) Ferrari (born 31 January 1959) is a conservative British radio host, television presenter and broadcast journalist.[1][2][3] He is best known as the host of the weekday breakfast show on the London-based radio station LBC.[4] He also has a regular column in the Sunday Express and was previously a regular guest on The Alan Titchmarsh Show. He regularly appears on ITV's programme This Morning and has presented the Sky News debate show The Pledge since 2016.
‘The single worst thing I’ve seen’: Top Oxford surgeon recounts horrors of Gaza hospital
A British doctor encountered one tragedy after another as he operated in the 'appalling' conditions of a central Gazan hospital
Prof Nick Maynard said that the “huge numbers” of wounded children would “never, ever leave [him]." CREDIT: Prof Nick Maynard/MAP
“It was the single worst thing I’ve seen in my 35-year medical career,” he told the Telegraph on Wednesday shortly after arriving home in Oxford.
Amid the chaos consuming the emergency department on New Year’s Day, the British consultant spotted a six-year-old boy wrapped in a blanket, lying alone and semi-conscious on the ground.
“He had no family with him and he hadn’t been seen by any nurses or doctors,” he said.
The child had a head injury, his body was covered with “appalling burns,” and his chest was torn open by a shrapnel wound. “You could see air being sucked in and then bubbling out again,” he said.
Prof Maynard scooped the boy up and rushed him into a corner. There were no beds, so he and a colleague laid him on the ground, working on hands and knees to try and resuscitate him.
“We were putting drips into him to drain the bleeding in his chest, we tried to cover his burns because he was shivering. It was awful. The tragedy is, I don’t know whether he survived”.
Prof Maynard, 61, is a consultant gastrointestinal surgeon at Oxford University Hospital and has been visiting Gaza to teach surgery since 2010.
But this was the first time he had entered the enclave during wartime. Speaking from Cairo and then Oxford, he said there was nothing that could have prepared him for his latest visit.
As an experienced surgeon, Prof Maynard Maynard mainly dealt with severe blast injuries to the abdomen and chest on his most recent trip to Gaza. CREDIT: Prof Nick Maynard /MAP
“It was much worse than we could possibly have imagined. I couldn’t compare it to anything, it was just like nothing I’ve seen on Earth,” he said.
His trip, organised through UK charity Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), was unexpectedly cut short on Sunday when he and his colleagues were told to evacuate the hospital by the IDF.
Strikes in the vicinity of the Al-Aqsa Hospital meant the vast majority of its medical staff, along with 600 patients, were forced to leave.
Prof Maynard’s last day working in the hospital was last Friday, when there was a reported missile attack that damaged the hospital’s intensive care unit. He was in surgery when the strike happened. There was “a big hole in the wall of the ICU,” he said.
He said there were rumours of IDF snipers in the nearby Deir al Balah neighbourhood shooting people and directing fire at the hospital.
“I didn’t see that, but I certainly saw the gunshot wounds on patients,” he said.
He and his team also heard quadcopters – remote-controlled drones – “incessantly” circling the hospital ground and making “the most appalling, very loud buzzing noise”. There have been allegations from others that the drones are armed with sniper rifles.
Prof Maynard is a consultant gastrointestinal surgeon at Oxford University Hospital and has been visiting Gaza to teach surgery since 2010. CREDIT: Prof Nick Maynard/MAP
Nearly all hospitals in Gaza have been forced to close because of the fighting. Al-Shifa, the Strip’s largest hospital, which Israel says sits above a Hamas command and control centre, closed in November.
Maynard has worked in Al-Shifa many times over the years and says, “unequivocally”, that he saw no evidence of the hospital being used by Hamas.
“I know many doctors who’ve been there for many years, who I would trust implicitly, who are quite clear that there’s never been any evidence of military activity,” he said.
“There can be certainly no doubt in my mind from what I’ve recently witnessed that [Israel] are directly targeting healthcare structures with a view to completely disabling the healthcare system in Gaza.”
Prof Maynard said the extreme crowing of hospitals in Gaza was not evident from the images and videos that were being released.
The Al-Aqsa hospital has capacity for roughly 150 patients but there were nearly 700 in need of treatment when Maynard left, he said. Hundreds more were taking refuge in the hospital grounds.
“There’s a whole new sort of town built up, with makeshift tents and shelters. It was just huge, completely impoverished people living there in the most appalling situations,” he said. “No running water. No sanitation systems at all. Just appalling.
Prof Nick Maynard with a colleague in Al-Aqsa hospital in central Gaza CREDIT: Prof Nick Maynard /MAP
He said there were days there was no running water in the operating theatres, so they could only scrub up using alcohol gel.
“The doctors and nurses were wonderful there, but they just simply couldn’t maintain a sterile environment,” he said.
“Sanitation was horrendous. Just appalling infections. There were flies in the operating theatre, flies resting on the open abdomen when we were operating.”
There were several hundred new patients coming into the emergency department every day. The sheer number of admissions was causing “a breakdown of the triage system,” Maynard said.
When there are large aerial bombardments in the area, many of the casualties are brought to the hospital by family members, as it is becoming increasingly difficult for ambulances to locate and reach the strike areas, he explained.
Some casualties are dragged helplessly on donkey carts to the hospital and others are carried for up to 2 kilometres by relatives.
“The reality is that many people haven’t been discovered yet, and when they are discovered, they’re dead,” he said.
His trip to Al-Aqsa, organised through UK charity Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), was unexpectedly cut short when he and his colleagues were told to evacuate the hospital by the IDF. CREDIT: Prof Nick Maynard/MAP
As an experienced surgeon, Maynard mainly dealt with severe blast injuries to the abdomen and chest, which caused “horrific” wounds, as the “very small and extremely hot” pieces of shrapnel passed through the bodily tissues with ease.
“When you open up the abdomen or the chest and then you just see the havoc these small fragments have caused - they rip through all the different internal organs,” he said.
But it was the “huge numbers” of wounded children that he said would “never, ever leave me.”
He saw many malnutrition cases amongst the surgical patients in Al-Aqsa and paediatrician colleagues told him they were seeing around two cases of Kwashiorkor a week.
Kwashiorkor typically affects children in famine hit areas, where a lack of protein causes fluid retention and their bellies to swell.
“I remember one child vividly. He was about eight or nine, and kept coming up to us asking for food because his whole family had been killed and he hadn’t eaten for three days. It was deeply distressing,” Prof Maynard said.
Four out of five of the hungriest people anywhere in the world are in Gaza, according to the World Food Programme, which recently warned that the spectre of famine now looms in the territory, where more than half a million people are facing “catastrophic” levels of hunger.
Prof Maynard said that he fell in love with the people of Gaza. CREDIT: Prof Nick Maynard/MAP
When The Telegraph spoke again with Prof Maynard on Wednesday, from his home in Oxford, he said he was having trouble sleeping.
“We were all affected very emotionally by what we saw and really struggled leaving. I didn’t sleep much the last couple of nights, we have these very mixed emotions about having left,” he said.
“Part of that is guilt. Guilt that we had to leave Gaza, our friends and colleagues, and knowing that we may not see them again.”
However, Maynard is already planning his next trip to the Al-Aqsa hospital where he hopes to stay as a resident with his team - rather than travelling back and forth to a safehouse.
“The people are unique in my view, I love them dearly, they are just indescribably wonderful,” he says. “I fell in love with the place…it’s just become such a huge part of me, that I have to go back and help them.”
THIRD: Summing up.
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