I had to search for this since the Al Jazeera article doesn’t mention it: A drone was being controlled from within the car and, according to the IDF, endangering their soldiers:
They know how to triangulate drone pilots and have been targeting them for a while now, given how dangerous even a small hobby drone is, so this makes sense.
What’s the excuse this time? Hamas terrorists hidden in the trunk?
“Sir, they’re asking for an excuse, are we still doing those?”
“Tell them they were terrorists”
“It says here the car was full of journalists”
“Journalists, terrorists… whatever. Tell them that”
[…probably]
I had to search for this since the Al Jazeera article doesn’t mention it: A drone was being controlled from within the car and, according to the IDF, endangering their soldiers:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-al-jazeera-journalists-were-killed-in-car-with-drone-operating-terror-operative/
They know how to triangulate drone pilots and have been targeting them for a while now, given how dangerous even a small hobby drone is, so this makes sense.