How Aid Groups in Gaza Coordinated With IDF, but Still Came Under Fire | Visual Investigations 

I’m an Aid Worker who has been helping people in need for 15 years in Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan. This incident shook us to the core, because WCK followed all the safety measures we rely on to keep us from being targeted. Also, this was not some poorly trained militia group in Central Africa. This is one of the most advance militaries in the world. Either this is intentional, or IDF is so inept they are incapable of enforcing basic safeguarding measures.

"But still came under fire".. what a title!

According to the Daily Telegraph, Haaretz, and others, the commander responsible for the WCK killings, who was fired afterwards, was Nochi Mandel a West Bank settler and "religious nationalist." In January 2024, 130 IDF reserve officers, including Mandel, signed an open letter imploring that Gaza be deprived of humanitarian aid and that "humanitarian supplies and the operation of hospitals inside Gaza City" not be allowed. According to Haaretz, in Gaza, "every commander makes his own rules." In other words, the commander ignores the higher command and does what he wants. So there are people making decisions on the ground who believe, like Yoav Gallant and Itmar Ben-Gvir at the top, that all aid workers are supporters of Hamas and should be killed. That would explain the pattern of killings found in this video. They're not accidents, they're not incompetence -- they're deliberate murders.

I get so angry when protests here are branded as anti-semetic. Being outraged by Netanyahu's horrors does not make you an anti-semite. And my Jewish friends agree!

That's a war crime. I m confident there will be justice for the victimes.

What about drone strikes on unarmed teens....?

As long as the USA keeps unconditionally giving weapons to Israel, and keeps protecting the Netanyahu government from the UN, this will keep happening.

We don't have a perfect country in Spain, but José Andrés and the people at WCK have done a fantastic job over the years. This was sad. Too many innocents have been killed over the months. Netanyahu's stupid grin when talking about the incident after it had taken place was disgusting.

'Offended by everything and ashamed of nothing.' - Israel in a nutshell -

Finally manufacturing consent against genocide. Foreign policy is too slow.

I hope you do an investigation on al shifa hospital masacare IDF committed and the mass graves that has been found

All Gaza IDF military operation is a failure Moral failure, military failure, political failure, strategic failure .

Premeditated

Thank you NYT for doing this.

Real modern day slaughter

This is foul and i pray that we as a nation as a people come together to put a stop to this! We ended Nazism and we should have learned the lesson then, We must stop Zionism the same way we did with nazism! This abuse is a stain on all of humanity. Judaism and Zionism are not the same thing same as Christianity and Nazism were not the same thing.

The new york times remembered they are a news organization again, lol

Sickening.

excellent journalism well done

It was on purpose!! this kind of deliberate attack would disrupt the humanitarian effort for a few weeks to months (which did happen) and because this "goal" is one of the many tools they used in this war to punish the people of that place, and because they know they will get away with it like evey time before what's stopping them from doing that?!

I’m so glad the students have finally opened the eyes of the Americans to the atrocities being committed against innocent Palestinians.

All aid to Israel should end, until Netanyahu is out of power and the Genocide ends.

We haven’t forgotten your complicity either NYT. It’s not gonna be that easy walking this one back.

0 trust in New York time

Is the NYT beginning to do independent investigations and reporting? Now, for independent reporting on targeted journalists!

Nice to see the NY Times do something other than uncritically reprint White House press releases. Doesn't it feel good to do something other than act as a propaganda arm for those who profit from human misery?

This journalism is so important. It hopefully makes it so that in the future, the IDF and other militaries of western countries prioritize protecting civilians much higher, because they otherwise lose support from allies and the public. I sincerely hope that this investigative journalism is a role model for other conflicts as well.

They learned a lot from Hitler's camp. They are implementing the same on other people.

Well the IDF military general told his soldiers all restrictions were held off Thanks for the man woman who made this

thank you for impartial journalism

It's all a joke. It's all a bad joke. Father forgive us.

Call it as it is. Targeted attacks on relief and medics

The IDF does this regularly, just google Qana massacre in 1996 where they bombarded a UN compound full of civilians (Don't click on images for your own sanity)... Plenty of other instances happened this is just one... Don't get me wrong Hamas isn't an angel in this fight.... Just two devils fighting.

I'm assuming you will also do an investigative piece on both the Al-Shifa and Nasser hospital sieges. Including the multiple mass graves discovered at both locations. Or are such resources only for when Westerners are unjustifiable attacked? You've been awfully quiet about 35.000+ civilian deaths.

"World Central kitchen" our beautiful brothers ❤❤❤❤😢

Thanks NY

32k views after 8 days on a channel with 4.6m subscribers on a hot topic? My comment is doing its part

"Came under fire"? Or brutally massacred by the IOF? Or is that kind of language only reserved against Hamas?

If this the care and competence they have with aid workers, imagine the care and competence they have with Gazans. ☠

May the lord forgive us for these things that we do to our brothers and sisters.

Journalism at its best and most necessary.

Nice title. Keeping the guilty party free of blame.

No words to describe such atrocities immortality and no ethics at all

after the war ended hope there will be an inquiry into idf conduct

The whole idea of having safe zones , of making deals not to bomb at a certain time in a certain area is completely doomed from the beginning. I don't know whether there is a thoughtpattern understanding that one can trust modern military drone technic or that one can trust human decisions in war times ... Obviously this is a misconception. It is realistic to mistrust technic. It is realistic to mistrust human decision making processes, especially in war times.

Well done, NYT.

"but still came under fire" you should get a prize for that understatement, specially after 254 aid workers killed by the IDF.

How did this piece get through the NYT internal censor? It must have been a mistake 😅

Indians who stand with Israel remember Gujarat atrocities in 2000 that was also genocide Islamophobia

"The right of the strongest to liberty"!

🇵🇸🇵🇸 people are finally listening

Title says it all how truth they are

This is just one of the thousands of war crime committed by the illegal regime. And we all knows there won't be any justice. #RIP to all the innocent souls 💔

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Might all this be cause the politicians actually dont have that much controll over the army? Like in Japan during WW2, where the military partially answers to the civil government.

we need a international army on the ground fighting terrorist IDF?

The suppression is just getting too real! 8 days and 32k views!?!?! Great job RU-vid! 👏👏👏👏👏👏

Telling the coordinates to be targeted. After the strike, wait for the military review.

They do this so organizations would be too scared to go and help the starving Palestinians.

This happened like a month ago. What is the point of this right now ?

Abhorrent

I discovered what happens when you really fight for human rights in the USA. Sadly, I don’t think too many people will miss this country to be honest.

When your main concern is genocide, everything else is 2nd.

Pure evil

they Came Under Fire ? no the IGF brings fire over them ?

They were doing well but allowed hamas to mess up their lives.

Like you can trust Israel.

The first genocide in live broadcast.....

The IOF telegram mockery to the murdered photos should've properly investigated whether they were true or hoax.

גם אם דבר כזה לא צריך לקרות, זה קורה במלחמה, אחרת לא הייתה "אש ידידותית". לרוע המזל, גם בני ערובה נורו, אבל זה יכול לקרות גם במלחמה.

this is murder, its targeted and they know it

shame on you west

It's just sickening. Never forget. This shapes the world politics forever. We, as citizens of and around the world, are sick of killings in and for our name. We are sick that politicians declare second rate people and corpses, for our name: when we don't stand for militarized solutions. When our kids die the first and last.

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How Aid Workers Were Assassinated

i would absoulety love to get daily mail delivery not that mumbo jumbo digital stuff i like hand held paper is that still possible in 2024? I would hope! Please leave me a message back id love to know amazing journalism like always!

Palestinian have won the battle but world has loose it

Blinken alone replaced the Palestinian hostage in Rafah

The kind of news you can get the horror without watching it... At least, there should be a limit for barbarism and war crime...

They lied....they really a bad person

Separation of Church and the United States.

Jensen Huang Nvidia is a great memory maker for Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, nothing more or less than that. Taiwan made shocking remarks that it was the world's No. 1 semiconductor manufacturing, packaging, and the world's No. 2 semiconductor design. In other words, China, including Taiwan, is the world's No. 1 semiconductor manufacturing, packaging, and the world's No. 2 semiconductor design. American and American businesses have made the wrong choice.

I’m from the UK. and have always supported Israel and their right to exist. I was a teenager when Entebbe happened and was in awe of the bravery of Israel. I have also visited concentration camps in Poland and will never ever forget the horror and depravity I saw. I think the actions of Hamas October 7th was utterly appalling and I understand Israel wanting to get rid of Hamas and for the hostages to be returned. However the Israeli response is so extreme and murderous and it will not solve the Hamas problem anyway. The Israelis are dishonouring the memories of all theJews murdered during the Holocaust in WW2 - shame on them

if this was cuba or iraq theere would be sannctions

IDF's war crimes must brought to justice.

We (the rest of the world) should be looking at Israel's "Facts and Findings Mechanism", very closely.

Sir I am from India pls help me My India government doing a wrong way of Dictarship

If only the NYT would do a piece on how they've coordinated with the IDF to cook propaganda for Israel.

As I see it there is a solution for this crisis. The international community needs to come togheter and put an UN peace keeping force that separates the two and prevents fighting happening from but sides. This is the short-term solution. The Long-term solution is a one state where all rights are guaranteed under Israeli law and in accordance with international law or a 1967 boarder with two states that is separated by an international peace keeping force but I don't think Israelis will agree to this so a one state solution is the only solution as I see it. The Palestinians should have the right of return to the land that was stolen from them and given the same rights as any Israelis. This is common sense. Those people have ancestry that goes back thousand hundred of years and should have the same rights has any European or an American Jew who wants to settle there. May the Lord of peace guide both sides. 🙏🙏🙏🙏

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Ney York Times is a terrible news source these days

The nyt are COMPLICIT in this!

All the different judges. What do you think the US did in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria? Did you check how many were killed there, it's not easy when you're dealing with terrorists and try to put yourself in the place of the soldiers in the field who are being shot at from various buildings that are considered humanitarian, but it turns out that Hamas violates this time and time again.

The claim that a strike happened within the Al-Mawasi 'safe' zone, the only location that has ever been declared to be 'safe', was one I'd never heard and from everything I'd been able to gather there has never been any credible evidence of a strike by the IDF within the safe zone, even when Hamas operates from within it and fires hundreds of rockets outwards. Fact-checking this one was brutal but it was the geo-location information that made it clear - this is a blatant lie by the humanitarian groups involved, and is being repeated by the NYT in this instance. They are not and never have been within the Al-Mawasi humanitarian 'safe' zone. You can actually see this quite clearly yourself within this video if you're familiar with the area - at 7:50 the NYT shows a map of Gaza where they have hashed out an area of the map as the safe zone, and show the location of the compound. If you are at all familiar with the area you should see the problem right away - that greyish blob south of the location is Khan Yunis... the Al-Mawasi and the Al-Mawasi humanitarian zone are WEST of Khan Yunis, the zone does not extent to any substantial amount north along the beach until very recent history - like the last few weeks - and for an extremely brief period of time at the start of the conflict, within October - where it was briefly around where it's marked on the map in the NYT visualization... but critically still doesn't overlap with the location of the compound. You can geolocate the compound quite easily yourself on google maps, it's immediately north of the Al-Aqsa University in northern Khan Younis - like right across the street. The area in all directions is all considered Khan Younis and not Al-Mawasi (the town/area) so that's not a potential confusion anyone could be operating under. The alleged strike on the compound occurred on January 18th - the borders of the Al-Mawasi humanitarian 'safe' zone - the ONLY location ever claimed to be 'safe' by the IDF, DID NOT CHANGE ITS BORDERS from October 30th until well after the strike on January 18th - and those borders were NOWHERE NEAR the compound. Despite this both aid organizations operating from there - whose people as far as I'm aware were bravely doing genuine and incredible humanitarian work and helping the Palestinian people - claim it was within the Al-Mawasi humanitarian 'safe' zone. I have no reason to doubt the location being deconflicted with the IDF, but that is a VERY DIFFERENT CLAIM. It's consistently mind blowing how the people ostensibly supporting the Palestinian people's wellbeing and righteous cause for self-determination CONSISTENTLY f'ing lie in really egregious ways - this is a particularly despicable instance because it's so obviously incongruent at a glance, the NYT has no excuse for not catching this. If I can look at its location and instantly realize "hey wait that's north of Khan Younis" then surely the most incompetent journalist should be able to - and a place like NYT should have this information go through entire teams of researchers prior to being published.

Israel Gaza will keep Verified busy for years to come

#IsraeliWarCrimes #FreePálestine

instead of saying " the NYT is reporting news again" say this " The NYT is reporting news that suit my narrative again"

USA give more then 50 billion USD to Israel from its citizens tax money .while USA citizens suffering health insurance issue , homeless issue etc . think how much social work can be done inside of USA by this money ? why USA give its money to Israel while his own citizen yet to homeless ?

The only state in the world that's never known a single day of peace since its conception is Israel. By choice.

when you use aid workers and aid facilities as human shields or as a cover, what do you expect to happen