Los Angeles Times

Strike didn’t look accidental

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Re “Grief, anger after Israeli strikes kill 7 aid workers,” April 3

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, similar to Capt. Renault in “Casablanca,” was shocked, shocked that an Israeli strike killed seven World Central Kitchen workers as they were feeding the hungry in the Gaza Strip.

The fact that their vehicles were well identified, traveling in convoy and following the route they had told the Israel Defense Forces they would use seemed to be lost on the prime minister when he acknowledg­ed responsibi­lity but cautioned, “It happens in war.”

Of course, plans to continue feeding the hungry in Gaza have been postponed. Was this consequenc­e unintended or intended? You decide.

Frank Ferrone El Cajon

With all the resolution­s and internatio­nal calls for Israel to agree to a ceasefire, why are there not similar demands for Hamas militants to surrender?

Hamas started this fight, using the people of Gaza as shields. It has hoarded weapons and supplies, including food that could prevent famine.

Where is the outrage? Why is the world always so one-sided in its condemnati­on?

The war would end immediatel­y if Hamas surrendere­d.

Greg Hirsch San Marcos

Netanyahu is an autocrat in sheep’s clothing.

Future generation­s of Palestinia­n grandchild­ren and great-grandchild­ren will be reminded of who caused the annihilati­on of their family members, and I have no doubt that some specter of Hamas will rise again.

Israel will never know peace because of Netanyahu.

Karen Espanol Culver City

If the IDF could not restrain itself from killing seven World Central Kitchen aid workers in Gaza, we can only imagine the carnage it has inflicted on the nameless, faceless and powerless civilians in Gaza.

The 33,000 dead Palestinia­ns in Gaza are not just the unfortunat­e casualties of war. They are the victims of a vengeful campaign intended to terrorize, humiliate and intimidate Palestinia­ns.

Unfortunat­ely, Hamas has already won this war in that its evil has exposed the moral bankruptcy of Netanyahu’s government in the eyes of the world. I salute those brave Israelis who oppose his repugnant policy.

John Williams Burbank

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