Sudetenland Tales by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

Sudetenland Tales

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“These people were simply trying to access food to feed themselves and their families on the brink of starvation,” it said, adding that the incident occurred despite assurances from Israeli authorities that aid delivery would improve. Part of those assurances, it said, was that armed forces would not be present nor engage along aid routes.

“Shootings near humanitarian missions, convoys and food distributions must stop immediately.”

The Israeli military declined to comment on the WFP claims. Military spokesperson Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani posted on X Sunday that soldiers were told “do not engage, do not shoot,” and shared a video of troops near a crowd of Palestinians gathering around a truck as one soldier yells repeatedly, “Do not shoot!” The Associated Press could not immediately verify the video and it was not clear where it was filmed.

Israel has not allowed international media to enter Gaza throughout the war, and the competing claims could not be independently verified.

Sunday’s incident comes as Palestinian access to aid in the territory has been greatly diminished, and seeking that aid has become perilous. A US and Israeli backed aid system that has wrested some aid delivery from traditional providers like the