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The flour massacre…

Al-Rashid humanitarian aid incident

On 29 February 2024, in what has been characterized as a massacre by some sources, 117 Palestinian civilians were killed and at least 760 were injured; the circumstances are disputed. This incident, which has been referred to as the Flour Massacre in media, took place when Israeli forces opened fire on civilians who were attempting to get food from aid trucks on Al-Rashid street at the Al-Nabulsi roundabout to the west of Gaza City. The United Nations reported “a large number of gunshot wounds” among injured victims treated at al-Shifa hospital.

  • nickEnglish
    481·
    9 months ago

    I am almost afraid to ask, but what the hell is “flour massacre”

      • Raebxeh@hexbear.netEnglish
        54·
        9 months ago

        Israel’s story changed

        Based off their record, I’d imagine they started out by denying all responsibility, then backpedaling that they may have had some responsibility, and then basically admitting it was their fault while using the most “officer related shooting” style language imaginable.

      • MaoTheLawn [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        17·
        9 months ago

        Yeah, when news was first coming out the reports were of Nabulsi Square, so I went to look that up but made a typo… instead of Google just correcting the typo with one letter - sending me to the relevant Al Jazeera article about the Nabulsi Square killings (as it was initially called) - I got a result for Tiananmen Square:

        Even if it gets corrected to ‘Naval Square’, Tiananmen is still the first thing to come up. You can type any spelling variation of Nabulsi in and it’ll show you Tiananmen. Naval and Nabsli/Nabulsi is closer to the Nisour Square Massacre than anything - committed by US mercernaries in Iraq, but it doesn’t get suggested.

        I know it’s probably not hardcoded to prefer Tiananmen, but it does show how algorithms reproduce already existing biases because ‘Xi Pooh Tiananmen’ rhetoric is so mind numbingly popular.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      38·
      9 months ago

      Al-Rashid humanitarian aid incident

      On 29 February 2024, in what has been characterized as a massacre by some sources, 117 Palestinian civilians were killed and at least 760 were injured; the circumstances are disputed. This incident, which has been referred to as the Flour Massacre in media, took place when Israeli forces opened fire on civilians who were attempting to get food from aid trucks on Al-Rashid street at the Al-Nabulsi roundabout to the west of Gaza City. The United Nations reported “a large number of gunshot wounds” among injured victims treated at al-Shifa hospital.

      • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        43·
        9 months ago

        The Gaza Health Ministry dubbed the incident as a massacre where 112 people were killed by Israeli gunfire,[2][11] while Israeli officials said that most of the casualties were from a stampede ensuing from warning shots fired by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) when a mob endangered them in two related incidents.[18][19][20] Other Israeli officials stated that they did in fact shoot some of the victims, although added that they believed that they were responsible for fewer than ten of the casualties.[21]

        Palestine says that Israelis killed Palestinians, while Israel says it killed some Palestinians while directly causing the conditions for the rest to be killed. Who could say who is right.