Questions raised over Israeli strikes that hit humanitarian groups in Gaza
Reporting from Washington, DC, Al Jazeera’s Mike Hanna has said a report by US news outlet Politico has renewed questions about Israeli attacks on aid groups in the enclave.
“Humanitarian organisations are asking why are they continuing to be targets of strikes by Israel, despite the fact that they have supplied their GPS coordinates to the Israeli forces through the United States government and the United Nations,” Hanna reported.
Washington sent GPS coordinates of medical facilities, including al-Shifa Hospital, and gave Israel information on the movement of aid groups, according to three people familiar with the messages quoted by Politico.
“According to the report, the information included not only GPS coordinates of a number of medical facilities, but also information on movements of aid groups for at least a month,” Hanna said.
“But as this Politico report said, the system was not observed in the case of Gaza, and Israeli forces carried out attacks on marked targets, and the bombing still continued.”
