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Belgian officials expressed outrage Thursday after Israeli forces reportedly bombed the office building of the Belgian Agency for Development Cooperation in the Gaza Strip, an attack that came after Belgium declined to join the U.S. and more than a dozen other countries in cutting off funding to the United Nations' Palestinian refugee agency.

The timing of the attack on the Belgian office building raised eyebrows, with observers pointing to the nation's status as one of the handful of Western countries not suspending aid to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in response to Israel's allegation that a dozen of the agency's employees took part in the October 7 attacks.

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[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 42 points 9 months ago

The US did the same thing during the whole "Freedom Fries" BS.

We were running a bombing run on Iraq, France denied us use of their airspace so we flew ALL THE WAY around France, ran the attack and "accidentally" bombed the French embassy in Iraq.

Oopsie.

Joke at the time was "Maybe our pilots would have had better aim if they had had a little more sleep!"

[-] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

The U.S. bombed the Chinese embassy in Serbia during the Kosovo War. I’m not sure if there was a direct reason but I remember there being a spy thing. Like a Chinese spy accessed some sensitive documents or something like that.

[-] where_am_i@sh.itjust.works -1 points 9 months ago

Fvck your US of A$$, and fvck Israel. Just so we're clear.

But now US support of this mayhem makes more sense.

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