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The Daily Telegraph garbles transmissions from Gaza. [1]
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Date: 2025-07-25
A flash from the past. This article was drafted but not published over a year ago. It shows Hamas militants commandeering the aid food trucks which now the usual suspects claim never happened.
Dishonest reporting about the Israel Palestinian conflict seems inherent but the UK’s Daily Telegraph seems to have taken it to new levels.
In reporting abut one of the senior IDF officers let go over the firing on the World Central Kitchen convoy, the headline states that he wanted to block humanitarian aid, implying that it was a direct motivation for the drone strike. His unit oversaw the convoys but drone strikes come from another unit, likely in cooperation with his unit.
As proof for this assertion, it quotes an open group letter addressed to his superiors that he had signed earlier during the war. It stated:
“As far as we understand … it is permissible and legal according to the laws of armed conflict, to impose a siege on a certain area, on the condition that the citizens who are in it are allowed evacuation corridors,” the letter adds.
The article goes on to quote various legal experts who think that letter is or isn’t relevant to an inquiry into what his role in the targeting of the World Central Kitchen convoy. Paraphrasing the letter, the article stated:
“The idea was to lay siege to the area until the estimated 130 Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza were returned.”
However, since Hamas refused its citizens egress, this siege idea was never implemented and aid has been flowing into Gaza assisted by and at no small risk to the IDF, as will be seen below
The article then impugns the officer that he must have been trying to interfere with aid by disobeying orders even after the convoy had been cleared and was being tracked by the IDF. However, the IDF inquiry found it was a mistake based on several errors:
a failure by the forces involved to identify the vehicles as belonging to WCK as they left the WCK warehouse for the evening
the mistaken assertion that an armed man had entered one of those vehicles [when the individual can be seen holding a bag]
the destruction of the second two vehicles after the first one was hit [without more evidence or independent decision as to those vehicles]
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/terror-and-security/israel-hamas-war-gaza-idf-aid-strike-world-central-kitchen/
Although one of the cars had roof markings, this was not visible to the drone operators at near midnight. Going forward, aid vehicles will be marked with a heat sensitive marking so the drones can “read” them, it was elsewhere reported. Armed Hamas men had been witnessed on the trucks, and it was mistakenly thought that one had entered the truck, presumably, tragically, making it a “legitimate” target.
This “gunmen on top” is fairly typical according to a post on X by former government spokesmen Eylon Levy. The link shows a vibrant city scene in Rafah with many food aid trucks rolling by, all with armed men on top — making them legitimate targets in IDF parlance?
x Captured on @Reuters livestream:
Palestinian armed gunmen on top of an aid convoy in Rafah.
Why does everyone accept this as normal?
pic.twitter.com/mQh14GypZj — Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) April 9, 2024
Then, misinterpreting Levy’s ironic post asking why everyone seems to think gunmen riding on aid trucks is “normal,” the article then states that seeing aid trucks with armed men on top is normal! But that very usual (evidently) thing is what would make a vehicle a legitimate target, I can only presume.
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