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The Israeli Defence Force (IDF) killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers – including three Britons – using a UK-made drone. The news only serves to increase pressure on the Tories to ban arms exports to Israel.

read more: https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2024/04/04/world-central-kitchen-drone-strike/

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I wanna say leopards ate their faces, but the aid workers were most likely at least largely decent people. Can Israel bomb UK Parliament?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A quote from The IT Crowd seems equally appropriate and inappropriate.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I'll just put this with the rest of the fire

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Oh so that's another scandal for the Tories. At this point they just collect them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

oh greaaaat now the propagandists can spin this as brit-on-brit crime

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