The Intercept:
"This constitutes 'a likely war crime' that violates international standards on aid distribution, according to the United Nations. 'Desperate, hungry people in Gaza continue to face the inhumane choice of either starving to death or risk being killed while trying to get food,' the U.N. human rights office said. Palestinian health authorities reported that Israel killed 44 people waiting for aid in separate incidents in southern and central Gaza just on Tuesday this week. Israeli soldiers have reportedly killed aid-seekers with bullets, tank shells, and drone-mounted weapons.
Israeli officers and soldiers said that they were ordered to deliberately fire at unarmed civilians waiting for humanitarian aid in an investigation published by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz on Friday; the military prosecution has called for a review into possible war crimes.
The Israeli military has said reports about casualties at aid sites have prompted 'thorough examinations … in the Southern command' and that 'instructions were issued to forces in the field following lessons learned.' 'The aforementioned incidents are under review by the competent authorities,' an unnamed spokesperson for the Israeli military said in a statement emailed to The Intercept. ...
An open letter published earlier this week by more than a dozen human rights and legal advocacy groups, including the Center for Constitutional Rights and the International Commission of Jurists, condemned the organization. The letter stated that the privatized, militarized aid distribution system — and close collaboration with Israeli authorities — undermines 'the core humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence.' "
https://theintercept.com/2025/06/27/israel-killed-palestinians-food-aid-gaza/
-->Don't bother looking for this story in the NYT. Our newspaper of record distorts the news about Gaza by leaving stories like this out.
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Common Dreams:
"Israel Defense Forces commanders ordered troops to shoot and shell aid-seeking Palestinian civilians in Gaza, even when they posed no threat, according to IDF officers and soldiers interviewed by Israel's oldest daily newspaper. Haaretz on Friday published testimonies of IDF members including senior officers who said that commanders including Brig. Gen. Yehuda Vach ordered troops to open fire on aid-seeking Palestinians in order to disperse them, even when there was no danger to Israeli troops.
'It's a killing field,' one soldier said. 'Where I was stationed, between one and five people were killed every day. They're treated like a hostile force—no crowd-control measures, no tear gas—just live fire with everything imaginable: heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars. Then, once the center opens, the shooting stops, and they know they can approach. Our form of communication is gunfire.'
The IDF has repeatedly told international media after these massacres they will investigate the circumstances. Haaretz investigated and was able to confirm direct orders to shoot at unarmed civilians seeking aid."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/idf-gaza-aid-killings
-->The details of a genocide makes it all real. The families gunned down trying to get their children food. Details are what the Israeli newspaper Haaretz provides, but not the NYT.
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Common Dreams:
"The Vilification of Zohran Mamdani–and Why He's Right About Israel's Genocide. Bloviating about Mamdani's alleged antisemitism for criticism of Israel has garnered more attention than a shocking report that Israeli soldiers are ordered to shoot at civilians waiting for aid in Gaza.
It says a lot about how corrupted U.S. politics have become that so many elected leaders, Republicans and Democrats, are more enraged about the Democratic candidate for mayor of New York City's opposition to the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza than they are about Israeli policy itself. And U.S. complicity with it.
That contradiction became especially apparent in recent days when the bloviating about Zohan Mamdani's alleged antisemitism for criticism of Israel has garnered more attention than a shocking report in an Israeli publication, Haaretz, that Israeli soldiers are 'ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/mamdani-gaza-genocide
-->This opinion won't be seen in the NYT. Our newspaper of record likes stories like these. Anything to get its readers not to focus on the genocide unfolding in front of their noses.
