It's Monday, April 8, 2024.

I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from

a Christian worldview.

Much of the world's attention and conversation has had to do with the tragedy that took place

in Gaza last Monday when seven workers for the aid group known as World Central Kitchen were killed

in what is now acknowledged to have been an Israeli military strike.

Now almost immediately this became headline news all over the world and for reasons that we can

certainly understand especially when we're talking about aid workers here and we're

talking about video and photographic evidence that is just absolutely devastating.

You're looking at a convoy of three vehicles and you have successive attacks undertaken

by the Israeli military, the IDF, and it is not known exactly what kind of attack it was right

now, but in any event it was absolutely devastating, one after another all three of the vehicles

were destroyed and the persons who were within them as well.

That included seven aid workers, one of them by the way, carrying an American passport,

an American citizen.

So regardless of the circumstances circumstances this was going to be

catapulted into international attention and it was going to stay there for some period of

time. But this is where things get really interesting and where we need to think

very very carefully.

First of all we need to categorize what took place here.

By any designation it is a tragedy.

We're talking about the death of seven people and we're talking about the death of seven people who are non-combatants even though they were in a combat zone and we're talking about human beings made in the image of God who were there to try to help other human beings made in the image of God,

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