UK-based Al-Khair Foundation said its volunteers were setting up tents for displaced Palestinians
An Israeli drone attack has murdered eight volunteers working for the UK charity Al-Khair Foundation as they were setting up tents for displaced Palestinians in northern Gaza.
At least nine people, including three journalists, were massacred and several more wounded in the attack in Gaza’s Beit Lahia, which targeted a relief team accompanied by journalists and photographers, according to Palestinian media.
Qasim Rashid Ahmad, founder and chairman of Al-Khair Foundation, told the BBC the team was in Beit Lahia on Saturday to set up tents for displaced Palestinians.
He said the cameramen were hit when they came back to their car, and moments later, an Israeli drone targeted their team members who had rushed to the scene.
The Palestinian Journalists Protection Center identified video editor Bilal Abu Matar and cameramen Mahmoud al-Sarraj, Bilal Aqila and Mahmoud Asleem as having been slaughtered in the attack.
The centre said that ‘the journalists were documenting humanitarian relief efforts for those affected by Israel’s genocidal war’.
‘Flagrant violation of international law’
Hamas called the attack a ‘horrific massacre’ and ‘a dangerous escalation that reflects Israel’s insistence on continuing its aggression and its disregard for all international laws and conventions’.
The Israeli military claimed it struck ‘two terrorists… operating a drone that posed a threat’. It added: ‘Later, a number of additional terrorists collected the drone operating equipment and entered a vehicle. The [military] struck the terrorists.’
The military gave no evidence for its claims, which were strongly denied by Al-Khair Foundation.
Independent British MP for Leicester South Shockat Adam said: ‘My heart and deepest condolences go out to the Al-Khair Foundation following the shocking killing of their volunteers and journalists in Gaza.
‘I will be personally contacting the charity, which has offices in my constituency and writing to the minister to demand an independent and transparent investigation into the facts.’
The secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, Wajid Akhter, said: ‘The killing of humanitarian workers is a flagrant violation of international law and must be met with unequivocal global condemnation.
‘Israel’s allies have a moral obligation to acknowledge these atrocities and take decisive action to ensure such grave breaches of international humanitarian law are brought to an end.
‘We call upon the British government to condemn these actions in the strongest possible terms.’
So, it appears to be okay for the Zio-Jews to change the laws of many Western-Nations to their jaundiced reflection of ‘anti-hate speech’ while simultaneously ignoring International Legal norms and thumbing their collective noses at judgements reflected by the ICC-ICJ? I do think that it is past-time that people started facing obvious FACTS, i.e. straw-polls appear to indicate that a large proportion of Jews don’t appear to give a ‘flying-phuck’ about non-Jews, whether Christian or Calathumpian. I wouldn’t suggest that it is ALL Jews, however, it appears to be a majority, whether vocal or silent. And, I for one, who once had the greatest empathetic-pity for the phantom ‘Holohoax’ survivors, now abhor the very ground that these balspheming-liers walk on. I was fooled once too many times by their overpowering media and in many … am disappointed at my own gullible-stupidity. As the saying goes: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me again, shame on me …