When "Outrageous" isn't a Big Enough Word

US cuts to UNRWA's budget already have imperiled education for refugee children and humanitarian aid.  Now additional Trump Administration cuts threaten to push Gaza towards total collapse of basic sewage and hospital infrastructure….

US Slashes 200 Million in Aid to Palestinians as Gaza Hospitals Run Out of Fuel

 

Gaza hospitals rely on backup generators to keep the lights and life-saving devices running. (photo: Mahmoud Khattab/APA)

Gaza hospitals rely on backup generators to keep the lights and life-saving devices running. (photo: Mahmoud Khattab/APA)

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Until now, it was a secret report

"A CONFIDENTIAL REPORT by Israeli military police investigators seen by The Intercept explains how a tragic series of mistakes by air force, naval, and intelligence officers led to an airstrike in which four Palestinian boys playing on a beach in Gaza in 2014 were killed by missiles launched from an armed drone.

Testimony from the officers involved in the attack, which has been concealed from the public until now, confirms for the first time that the children — four cousins ages 10 and 11 — were pursued and killed by drone operators who somehow mistook them, in broad daylight, for Hamas militants."

Secret Israeli Report Reveals Armed Drone Killed Four Boys Playing on Gaza Beach in 2014

A Palestinian man carries the body of a boy, whom medics said was killed by a shell fired by an Israeli naval gunboat, on a beach in Gaza City July 16, 2014. Reuters

A Palestinian man carries the body of a boy, whom medics said was killed by a shell fired by an Israeli naval gunboat, on a beach in Gaza City July 16, 2014. Reuters

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