#humanitarian workers

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Israel is being subjected to obscene double standards

Western leaders have no right to lecture the Jewish State about the conduct of war.

by Jake Wallis Simons

The Gray Lady even contrasted the two incidents in a way that painted the American atrocity favourably while casting Israeli intentions in doubt. The Kabul attack, it said, ‘came after a suicide bombing killed at least 182 people, including 13 American troops, during the frantic American withdrawal from the country. Under acute pressure to avert another attack, the US military believed it was tracking a terrorist who might imminently detonate another bomb. Instead, it killed an Afghan aid worker and nine members of his family.’

The Gaza strike, however, ‘adds fuel to accusations that Israel has bombed indiscriminately’, the New York Times said, pre-empting the results of the independent investigation with breathless speculation and a healthy dose of ‘confirmation bias’ of its own. The assumption could not be clearer: whereas the Americans were acting out of panic and confusion, the Israelis were either acting out of disregard for human life or straightforward bloodlust.

Civilian deaths, including those of aid workers, are a tragic reality of modern warfare. Sixty-two humanitarian workers lost their lives in combat zones last year. Although they were mostly killed at the hands of autocratic regimes and militias, during wartime they are also the casualties of democracies, including Britain.

During the Libyan civil war in 2011, when David Cameron had his hands on the joystick, 13 people were killed by a NATO airstrike, including an ambulance driver, three nurses and some friendly troops. (He did not, surprisingly, subject his own government to the type of rhetoric that he has recently been levelling at the Israelis over the mistaken Gaza strike.) That same week, NATO wiped out a family near Ajdabiya in the north of the country. This year, even the Danish military was forced to admit that its aerial assault had claimed the lives of 14 Libyan civilians.

The difference between attitudes towards most Western armed forces and the Israelis could not be sharper. According to the UN, the average combatant-to-civilian death ratio in war around the world is one to nine. When Britain, America and our allies battled Islamic State in Mosul in 2016-17, we achieved a much more respectable rate of about one to 2.5. In Gaza, Israel has done better still, reaching about one to 1.5, and possibly even less.

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[agentfascinateur]

Where is the "Article 5" for the 207 UNRWA workers killed by Israelis?

#world humanitarian day

#patricide against UN

#an attack on all

[banglanewsmagazine]

লেবাননে ইসরায়েলি হামলায় রেড ক্রসের প্যারামেডিক নিহত, আইসিআরসি’র উদ্বেগ

দক্ষিণ লেবাননের বেইত ইয়াহুন শহরে ইসরায়েলি হামলায় লেবানিজ রেড ক্রসের এক প্যারামেডিক নিহত হয়েছেন। নিহত চিকিৎসকের নাম হাসান বদাউই। আলজাজিরার খবরে বলা হয়, রবিবারের এই হামলার পর ঘটনাটি আন্তর্জাতিক অঙ্গনে নতুন করে উদ্বেগ সৃষ্টি করেছে। ঘটনার পর আন্তর্জাতিক রেড ক্রস কমিটি (আইসিআরসি) লেবাননে চিকিৎসা কর্মীদের ওপর হামলা নিয়ে গভীর উদ্বেগ প্রকাশ করেছে। সংস্থাটি জানায়, জীবন বাঁচাতে নিয়োজিত চিকিৎসা কর্মীদের মৃত্যু অত্যন্ত দুঃখজনক এবং এটি বেসামরিক নাগরিকদের সেবায় বড় ধরনের প্রভাব ফেলছে। আইসিআরসির লেবানন প্রতিনিধিদলের প্রধান অ্যাগনেস ধুর বলেন, জীবন বাঁচাতে গিয়ে যারা নিজেদের জীবন উৎসর্গ করেন তাদের হারানো অত্যন্ত কষ্টের। আহত মানুষেরা এসব সেবার ওপর সম্পূর্ণভাবে নির্ভরশীল। তিনি আরও বলেন, চিকিৎসক ও মানবিক সহায়তায় নিয়োজিত কর্মীদের অবশ্যই সুরক্ষা দিতে হবে, যাতে তারা আহতদের কাছে পৌঁছে সহায়তা দিতে পারেন এবং নিরাপদে ফিরে আসতে পারেন। আইসিআরসি সব পক্ষকে আহ্বান জানিয়েছে আন্তর্জাতিক মানবিক আইন মেনে চলার এবং সংঘাতে চিকিৎসা ও মানবিক কর্মীদের সুরক্ষা নিশ্চিত করার জন্য।

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Here's the text of the UN resolution:

Safety and security of humanitarian personnel and protection of United Nations personnel :

And now here's the US response, which reads as though it's responding to an imagined document entitled "Marxist Strategies to Bring About the Abolition of Gender and Create a Trans World, Discount Coupon for an Abortion Inside":

https://usun.usmission.gov/explanation-of-vote-on-the-resolution-titled-safety-and-security-of-humanitarian-personnel-and-protection-of-united-nations-personnel/

The same red-in-the-face 5th-beer-in-hand uncle who has Fox News blaring all evening, who compulsively shit-posts memes on X, and who seemingly can't help himself turning everything into a debate about how immigrants are ruining the country - this kind of mind qualitatively is behind this statement by the United States Mission to the UN. If everyone at the UN was looking at each other with a Uh, what? look on their face, well, the sane part of the country is sorry you're having to deal with this administration.

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How to qualify for a UAE Golden Visa without property or investment via the volunteering route | World News - The Times of India

You can now qualify for the UAE’s Golden Visa without investing in property or business, just show a strong track record of volunteering or humanitarian work/ Image composite: WAM, FIle If you have dedicated time and effort to helping others, whether through volunteering, medical aid, education, or supporting charitable causes, the UAE now offers a clear opportunity for long-term residency.The…

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[kokchapress]

383 humanitarian workers were killed in 2024, the highest number ever recorded. 🌍 #HumanitarianWorkers #WorldHumanitarianDay #Gaza #Sudan #UN #ProtectAidWorkers

hameful "Record": 383 Humanitarian Workers Killed Last Year