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Originally Posted by Pierre
It’s not flimsy.
If they had incorrect intelligence given to them or had mistakenly observed the individuals or for whatever other reason they thought that convoy contained Hamas soldiers. Then they legitimately fired upon it.
No doubt an investigation will determine what happened.
But as long as they didn’t deliberately fire upon a target that they knew to be innocent aid workers, and there’s no evidence either way at the moment. Then as unfortunate as it is, at the moment, it is a tragic mistake. Or a failure in command and control, and/or negligence.
That needs to be investigated and prevented from happening in the future.
But to suggest IDF deliberately murdered those people is absolutely baseless, at this moment.
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Israel has been killing aid workers for decades and will be killing them for decades more. Only killing innocent Palestinians is a greater certainty from their military “tactics”.
The investigations into previous ones clearly done little to inform decision making to prevent this massacre, nor the massacre of women and children up and down the Gaza Strip under the guise of “targeting” Hamas.
The only interesting thing about this is the hole in the car roof that demonstrates the kind of precision weapons that Israel could use. Which is interesting when held against the rubble that remains of many buildings, including hospitals, where different ammunition with used with a callous disregard for the inevitable cost in innocent human lives.
Murder has a specific definition, so I don’t use that word in this case, however Israel absolutely permitted their deaths and deemed it a price worth paying until they saw the passports.