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The flour massacre...

Al-Rashid humanitarian aid incident

On 29 February 2024, in what has been characterized as a massacre by some sources, 117 Palestinian civilians were killed and at least 760 were injured; the circumstances are disputed. This incident, which has been referred to as the Flour Massacre in media, took place when Israeli forces opened fire on civilians who were attempting to get food from aid trucks on Al-Rashid street at the Al-Nabulsi roundabout to the west of Gaza City. The United Nations reported "a large number of gunshot wounds" among injured victims treated at al-Shifa hospital.

  • D61 [any]
    hexbear
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    4 months ago

    Liberals: TRUMP IS AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO DEMOCRACY!

    Biden: Hey Mr. Trump, wanna go watch brown people drown in the Rio Grande?

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
      hexagon
      hexbear
      15
      4 months ago

      In a coincidence - I started this thread about the same time you made your comment - https://hexbear.net/post/1976347?scrollToComments=false

      • D61 [any]
        hexbear
        10
        4 months ago

        We're orobourosing each other now, aren't we?

        • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
          hexagon
          hexbear
          13
          4 months ago

          I had to stop checking live update pages for the Gaza war because it was turning me into a crazy person. I felt like I intentionally was sticking myself into a time loop of rubbernecking past a daily horrorshow.

          Sadly Israel is committing so much evil so often - there will be (many?) more coincidences.

    • dannoffs [he/him]
      hexbear
      84
      4 months ago

      Israel opened fire on people waiting for food from aid trucks, killing over 100 and injuring over 700.

      https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/03/01/fppq-m01.html

            • Gay_Tomato [they/them, it/its]
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              3 months ago

              During the February 28 incident, Taiwanese leaders established Resolution Committees in various cities (with a central committee in Taipei) and demanded greater political autonomy. Negotiations with the ROC ended when troops arrived in early March. The subsequent feelings of betrayal felt towards the government and China are widely believed to have catalysed today's Taiwan independence

              mao-wtf

      • @Raebxeh
        hexbear
        57
        4 months ago

        Israel’s story changed

        Based off their record, I’d imagine they started out by denying all responsibility, then backpedaling that they may have had some responsibility, and then basically admitting it was their fault while using the most “officer related shooting” style language imaginable.

      • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
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        3 months ago

        Yeah, when news was first coming out the reports were of Nabulsi Square, so I went to look that up but made a typo.. instead of Google just correcting the typo with one letter - sending me to the relevant Al Jazeera article about the Nabulsi Square killings (as it was initially called) - I got a result for Tiananmen Square:

        Show

        Even if it gets corrected to 'Naval Square', Tiananmen is still the first thing to come up. You can type any spelling variation of Nabulsi in and it'll show you Tiananmen. Naval and Nabsli/Nabulsi is closer to the Nisour Square Massacre than anything - committed by US mercernaries in Iraq, but it doesn't get suggested.

        I know it's probably not hardcoded to prefer Tiananmen, but it does show how algorithms reproduce already existing biases because 'Xi Pooh Tiananmen' rhetoric is so mind numbingly popular.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
      hexagon
      hexbear
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      4 months ago

      Al-Rashid humanitarian aid incident

      On 29 February 2024, in what has been characterized as a massacre by some sources, 117 Palestinian civilians were killed and at least 760 were injured; the circumstances are disputed. This incident, which has been referred to as the Flour Massacre in media, took place when Israeli forces opened fire on civilians who were attempting to get food from aid trucks on Al-Rashid street at the Al-Nabulsi roundabout to the west of Gaza City. The United Nations reported "a large number of gunshot wounds" among injured victims treated at al-Shifa hospital.

      • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
        hexbear
        45
        4 months ago

        The Gaza Health Ministry dubbed the incident as a massacre where 112 people were killed by Israeli gunfire,[2][11] while Israeli officials said that most of the casualties were from a stampede ensuing from warning shots fired by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) when a mob endangered them in two related incidents.[18][19][20] Other Israeli officials stated that they did in fact shoot some of the victims, although added that they believed that they were responsible for fewer than ten of the casualties.[21]

        Palestine says that Israelis killed Palestinians, while Israel says it killed some Palestinians while directly causing the conditions for the rest to be killed. Who could say who is right.

        • blakeus12 [he/him]
          hexbear
          35
          4 months ago

          Israel says it killed some Palestinians while directly causing the conditions for the rest to be killed.

          even then it's still their fault

    • IMF_DOOM [she/her, undecided]
      hexbear
      44
      4 months ago

      Hey leftists, just because Joe Biden kissed Giorgia Meloni it doesn't mean he approves of her fascist government 😡

      he probably just mistook her for a child

  • sir_this_is_a_wendys [he/him]
    hexbear
    30
    4 months ago

    I still have people angrily telling me I just need to vote straight D this year. I've never felt so confident telling them I'm not voting for genocide collaborators and that my vote doesn't matter anyways.

  • Egon [they/them]
    hexbear
    3
    3 months ago

    Jesus Christ that wikipedia entry has been written by a real ghoulish piece of shit.