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At the WCK Welcome Centre, locally-contracted security personnel got on and into the trucks and the convoy
continued the journey to the warehouse. As the trucks moved away from the Welcome Centre, one locallycontracted security person on top of the trailer of the third truck fired his weapon into the air. This was clearly
visible in the UAV video, observed by the UAV operator and assessed by the Brigade Fire Support Commander to be
consistent with Hamas hijacking the aid convoy.
During the aid convoy transit to the warehouse the Brigade Attack Cell contacted CLA with concerns there were
armed individuals on the convoy. CLA attempted through various means to contact WCK, first directly to the
convoy, then to international WCK contacts. CLA eventually made contact with the WCK Headquarters in the
United States who, after multiple attempts, made text message contact via WhatsApp with a WCK member who
had gone ahead of the convoy to the warehouse. They replied that the locally-contracted security personnel had
‘fake guns’. WCK Headquarters replied to CLA that they had made contact with WCK in Gaza and would address the
gun issue when WCK completed the task. It was difficult to tie down the exact timing of this extended set of
communications; however, they appear to have continued after the WCK vehicles had already been attacked,
indicating a lack of awareness by CLA of real-time events.
Once at the warehouse, the aid trucks entered and the WCK vehicles joined up and parked outside along with the
locally-contracted security vehicle. At this point the UAV operator identified the original gunman dismounting from
the truck and joining with another individual identified as a gunman. Over the next ten minutes approximately 15-
20 people, including two to four gunmen, moved around the escort vehicles. During this period, the gunmen were
classified by the Brigade Fire Support Commander and Brigade Chief of Staff as Hamas. P ....
> The identification of the armed individuals on the convoy and near/in the WCK vehicles had not been done in a professional manner. The mindset involved in the decision making was wrong.
> It was inferred a number of times that not only had the gunmen associated with the WCK aid convoy exhibited tactics similar to Hamas, but that in fact ‘they were Hamas’.
> Head FFAM confirmed that only the video feed being used by the UAV operators was used to identify the
gunmen as Hamas.
You see an aid convoy - which you are 100% certain is a legitimate aid convoy, because they communicated with you - being escorted by armed security, and your response is to bomb the aid convoy? In what world is that justified?
apparently Hamas in control of convey ....
".... At the WCK Welcome Centre, locally-contracted security personnel got on and into the trucks and the convoy continued the journey to the warehouse. As the trucks moved away from the Welcome Centre, one locallycontracted security person on top of the trailer of the third truck fired his weapon into the air. This was clearly visible in the UAV video, observed by the UAV operator and assessed by the Brigade Fire Support Commander to be consistent with Hamas hijacking the aid convoy. During the aid convoy transit to the warehouse the Brigade Attack Cell contacted CLA with concerns there were armed individuals on the convoy. CLA attempted through various means to contact WCK, first directly to the convoy, then to international WCK contacts. CLA eventually made contact with the WCK Headquarters in the United States who, after multiple attempts, made text message contact via WhatsApp with a WCK member who had gone ahead of the convoy to the warehouse. They replied that the locally-contracted security personnel had ‘fake guns’. WCK Headquarters replied to CLA that they had made contact with WCK in Gaza and would address the gun issue when WCK completed the task. It was difficult to tie down the exact timing of this extended set of communications; however, they appear to have continued after the WCK vehicles had already been attacked, indicating a lack of awareness by CLA of real-time events. Once at the warehouse, the aid trucks entered and the WCK vehicles joined up and parked outside along with the locally-contracted security vehicle. At this point the UAV operator identified the original gunman dismounting from the truck and joining with another individual identified as a gunman. Over the next ten minutes approximately 15- 20 people, including two to four gunmen, moved around the escort vehicles. During this period, the gunmen were classified by the Brigade Fire Support Commander and Brigade Chief of Staff as Hamas. P ....
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