The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of events, which said the vehicles were “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency signals.

A video, discovered on the cellphone of a paramedic who was found along with 14 other aid workers in a mass grave in Gaza in late March, shows that the ambulances and fire truck that they were traveling in were clearly marked and had their emergency signal lights on when Israeli troops hit them with a barrage of gunfire.

  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    so they largely did just that right up until Pearl Harbor made it so they could not turn away

    FWIW we (the United States) could conceivably have gone on turning away from what Germany was doing even after Pearl Harbor (although that was unlikely given Roosevelt’s anti-Germany stance). Hitler declared war on the US on December 11th, not the other way around.

    • pulsewidth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      13 hours ago

      Yeah, even in my excessively long reply to a one sentence comment I was skipping over a lot of information for brevity, and I’m not a historian. My point was only to illuminate that the US stance pre-WW2 involvement was not dissimilar to today’s - broadly the govt doesnt care that people suffer even to the point of genocide now nor then, as long as national interests (basically business and economy) are unimpeded.

      Thanks for the added info.