• HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I cant find the direct link - it was the breaking news link in Al Jazeera around 6 hours ago that has now been changed as news develops. I also suspect that statement has since been recanted as none of their new stories mention it, nor does the improvethenews.org story.

    I doubt Israel was escorting it, but with Hamas stealing aid supplies for the war effort I also wouldn’t be surprised (opinion only, don’t take that as fact). I also doubt that Hamas armed forces were driving, but Hamas is also the Palestine government so could be technically correct if they were government workers???

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      8 months ago

      Times of Israel article has them as ‘private contractors’, Egyptian drivers seem the most logical

      I can’t see where Al Jazeera came up with that claim then

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        8 months ago

        It may sound like I’m supporting Israel in this thread, but I’m supporting balanced arguements and anti propaganda. I would trust Times of Israel to be as biased as MEE or Democracynow (that is incredibly biased and half the story).

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          8 months ago

          Sure, they’re a sockpuppet for Israel. But still, their claim sounds a lot more plausible than AJ suggesting ‘Hamas’ was driving

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          8 months ago

          If you say anything other than what the hivemind is saying- you’re always going to be accused of being “anti-something.”

          I once tried telling people that Biden is not physically committing genocide anywhere and that Israel isn’t enabled entirely as a result of Biden and would be doing it with or without his involvement- and was harassed for hours over it.

          They seriously think that Biden is the mastermind of the whole operation.