The World Food Programme (WFP) has announced a pause in the movement of its employees in the Gaza Strip “until further notice” after one of its vehicles was hit by gunfire just metres from an Israeli-controlled checkpoint.
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric blamed Israel for the attack, telling reporters in New York that the “clearly marked” humanitarian vehicle was “struck 10 times” by Israeli gunfire, including with bullets targeting front windows.
Five of the bullets were on the driver’s side and some on the windscreen.
Dujarric said the convoy’s movements had been coordinated with the Israeli military and it had clearance to approach.
*again.
Israeli forces fire on UN food agency’s team in Gaza again.
Same thing I was gonna add…
It made me happy for a second to think we all agree and then kinda depressed that we all agree that Israel keeps attacking the volunteers just trying to help victims of their war.Are anyone even surprised anymore?
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My god this bot is problematic… Really makes me lose all respect for the
.worldecosystem of mods and admins that they’ve heard the feedback and refused to do anything without even considering the possibility of just not having this bot at all. All feedback is replied to with basically “you must implement a bot for us in order for us to take you seriously”They claim they’re not authoritarian by forcing this, after so many have complained.
A bot that just spams the media ratings of some random dude is so incredibly a techbro non-solution to the actual problem of people posting questionable sources. Not only does it not stop people from posting questionable sources to begin with, it creates a bunch of off topic chatter about the rating itself. So now instead of just removing poor sources, poor sources get a comment that probably 90% of people voting aren’t going to see. This is somehow progress, despite changing nothing.
not to mention MBFC is itself biased.
everybody is. Every human. everything humans create, all has a bias. Worse… that might not even matter because their process has got to basically be “we do a spot check of articles to make sure they’re factually accurate and then we fit them where we thing they fall on the US political spectrum”
The reality is there’s no way to know how thorough they actually are, and for most publications- even “small” publications- it’s a bit of a joke to think five to ten articles is enough to determine reliability. other similar groups like Allsides and Ad Fontes have hundreds of employees/contractors reviewing outlets and their analysis is still remarkably circumspect.
MBFC has nine employees, including the founder. Nine.
I lost respect when they decided to defederate from the largest piracy community on the fediverse. I knew right then and there when push comes to shove, .world falls in line under the powers that be. Would have stayed on reddit if that’s what I wanted.
For sure. That one I can at least… Understand or appreciate that it is related to how hard it is to host potentially illegal content in the jurisdiction the instance is hosted in. But the way the MB/FC situation has been handled is… Embarrassing. Like there’s no way to defend it other than “you yourselves are biased and you want to dictate the kind of bias that is acceptable”
It speaks to a lack of media literacy by the moderation administration of the instance
Yes it is very disappointing. I believe the bot is actively harmful and have raised concerns through the proper channels only to be told they are not open to removing the bot at all. No reason given as to why the option should be off the table. Just have to hope that people see the downvotes and hesitate to take the ratings at face value.
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Translation: Sources that don’t follow the approved narrative may be removed, only our propaganda is true.
The !news team has recently changed course and opted out of the bot. AFAIK it will still operate in !world and !politics, but I want to share the news and thank everyone who has given feedback, downvoted, and protested the bot. This isn’t over, but I feel we’ve reached an inflection point.
Yeah its hard to argue for it after thinking for 5 seconds. If there was such a thing as an objective fact check, then we would be enjoying world peace. But there isnt, so stop running a bot that pretends to be. Weird centralized authority fascism bullshit.
Fuck me it’s early. Read forces as a verb, not a noun.
Pretty fucked that Palestinians have to suffer because NGOs feel (and are) unsafe.
I did the same. Anything can be a garden path sentence if your tired enough.
The old man the boat.
I’m sure the IGF and government aren’t upset about the pause at all
Fucking war criminals.
As are those who support them.
Let’s never forget the enablers of the Zionist Genocide.
You probably pay taxes in a state funding Israel. Go to Palestine and fight for what you believe in. Don’t let your dreams be dreams.
Israel continues to amaze me about how awful they can be.
Guys you just don’t understand… How is Israel supposed to fight Hamas when they’re hiding in cans of vegetables!? It’s not Israels fault that Hamas uses sandwiches to hide their operations in!
They say Hamas are terrorists because they attack innocent civilians and that may be true, but it seems that by the same metric, aren’t the IDF also terrorists for attacking innocent civilians in clearly marked vehicles ?
Verily i say more, If we go by how much civilian infrastructure and casualties have been committed, one side is clearly acting more strongly within the definition of terrorist than the other.
But the idf aren’t brown???
Nor Muslim
Seems like we need a peacekeeping force stationed in Israel. Headed by one of the EU members preferably, since we cant trust the US to be impartial.
Germany is still shipping weapons to Israel.
Faced with a modern version of Nazism, some EU members can’t be trusted to not support them even when they’re in the middle of executing their very own version of the Holocaust, probably because that view of human beings as inherently superior or inferior depending on their etnicity (aka ubermenshen and untermenschen) is alive, well and as strong as century ago.
The others (including my own country) just have different levels of bullshit when it comes the the Israeli Nazism and Genocide.
The only two EU nations that can be trusted on this are the Republic Of Ireland and Spain.
Ah, I see. I think maybe capitalising “Forces” would help. I didn’t understand it as a noun for ages.
The only news media I saw today to name Israel as the perpetrators of the shooting.
Hmm wonder why that is.
Israel is a rogue state at this point, but everyone in power keeps pretending they’re not because wE nEeD sTaBiLiTy In ThE rEgIoN or some such utter fucking nonsense.
Well, that and they’re probably? a nuclear power. It’s fucking ridiculous what they can get away with.
Worry not: Biden will quickly pass an executive order for an emergency shipment from the US to Israel of bullets to replace the ones those brave IDF soldiers spent defending themselves from that evil UN Humanitarian vehicle.
Wouldn’t want them to be low on bullets if, God forbid, they’re faced with an even more dangerous assailant such as, for example, a Palestinian 5 year old child.
And don’t forget! You HAVE to vote for his party! Otherwise MY comfort might be at stake! I don’t want to hear about Palestinian children when gas costs $4.00! 😡🇺🇸🦅🫡💣
We all get it. It’s a shit sandwich. But doing nothing isn’t a noble choice either.
The problem is that the other party doesn’t seem to be against it
The choice is, would you rather eat shit, or eat shit marinated in vomit?
I see it more as, “we have to vote out Hitler! We’re keeping the concentration camps, but Hitler HAS TO GO!”
I also love Kamala’s “🥺we need to save abortion🥺”, when the democrat president she is vice to is doing nothing. If Biden can’t do anything, how can you?
And if Biden can do anything, he’s withholding that action for votes? Women are fucking dying and they’re using their lives as bargaining chips. Disgusting.
