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RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammo as Palestinians seek food in Gaza

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US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammo as Palestinians seek food in Gaza

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American contractors guarding aid distribution sites in Gaza are using live ammunition and stun grenades as hungry Palestinians scramble for food, according to accounts and videos obtained by The Associated Press.
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    Watching colleagues commit genocide sounds an awful lot like being an accomplice to genocide.

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    These aren’t contractors. They’re mercenaries.

    • arin@lemmy.world
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      Paid for by our 🇺🇸 tax, they are legally contractors

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        Contractors, private military companies… Call it what you will.

        They are mercenary scum paid to do the war crimes for your government.

        • PenguinMage@lemmy.world
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          Amazing how we can even outsource our warcrimes…

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    Just standing by while your colleagues fire on civilians? Straight to jail.

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      This is the kind of shit that would make me turn on them and open fire. In broad daylight. People like that will never see reason. They kill because it’s fun. They need to be removed from existence.

    • PenguinMage@lemmy.world
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      Yeah, that sounds like consequences tied to actions… we don’t do that… best we can do is sternly written disagreements.

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    Turn the guns on the Israeli soldiers. End the genocide.

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    Didn’t know there were US contractors guarding aid. That’s … interesting. Because they weren’t going to put “boots on the ground.”

    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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      There was news about this ca. a month ago? They help with guarding local concentration camps in Israel. And apparently, with shooting them too.

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    Summary:

    WHAT THE FUCK NETANYAHU

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      User name checks out 😉

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    They had them fooled. I’m pretty sure it’s unalive ammo

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