Protesters block convoy, throw food into road and set fire to vehicles at Tarqumiya checkpoint near Hebron

The White House has condemned an attack on an aid convoy heading to Gaza by Israeli settlers who threw packages of food into the road and set fire to the vehicles.

Video of the incident on Monday at Tarqumiya checkpoint, west of Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, showed settlers blocking the trucks and throwing boxes of much-needed supplies on the ground. Photographs from the scene showed piles of damaged aid packages and drifts of rice and flour across the road.

Late on Monday, photos began circulating on social media showing the trucks on fire.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      8 months ago

      Very low. It’s basically the hobby of a single conservative Zionist (assisted by some volunteer and paid freelancers, though there’s no public transparency about who does what and when) pretending to be a reputable arbiter of truth and bias.

      • bartolomeo@suppo.fiEnglish
        3·
        8 months ago

        Lol yea, but is Dave M. Van Zandt really a Zionist? I hadn’t heard that.

        My favorite part of their Wikipedia page is

        Fact checks are carried out by independent reviewers who are associated with the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) and follow the International Fact-Checking Network Fact-checkers’ Code of Principles, which was developed by the Poynter Institute.

        …

        Writers at the Poynter Institute, which develops PolitiFact,[24] have stated that “Media Bias/Fact Check is a widely cited source for news stories and even studies about misinformation, despite the fact that its method is in no way scientific.”

      • Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        Seriously, any of these company run “bias” checkers are completely pointless and at best are directly useful for pushing specific propaganda under the guide of they have been neutral up until then.

        Thinking you know better because you know what someone else tells you the bias is of the statement doesn’t actually make people more informed it just makes them insufferable liberals.