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2024-06-27 03:38:00 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: B2C52D18B89F349952FD68330916863586E407E53F7B438FC44ABE7DEC16B912
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Factually incorrect & misleading. The truck was a decoy made to clearly look like it was carrying furniture, not aid. Gazan eyewitnesses told media that some rescuers “came from a truck full of furniture”: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv22xvp90nlo https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/06/09/israel-gaza-hostages-rescue-raid/ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/11/nuseirat-anatomy-of-israels-massacre-in-gaza Delivering aid in a war zone is known to be risky: https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/feature/2019/07/19/aid-access-worker-safety-war https://www.npr.org/2012/03/12/148460539/the-challenges-of-aid-work-in-conflict-zones https://www.newsweek.com/i-have-delivered-aid-war-zones-they-were-missions-we-feared-most-opinion-1876536
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