One informed source, from outside of the region, said the wheelchairs had been blocked because of concerns among Israeli authorities that the wheelchairs could be "dual use" — effectively classifying the civilian items as potential weapons.

Human rights organisations, including Gisha, have regularly criticised Israel for using a very broad definition of "dual use", arguing it goes so far as to include items like torches and tent poles.

Sure, poor IDF military, having children's wheelchairs thrown at their tanks. Perhaps those wily Palestinians might make missiles out of the wheelchairs and hurt shielded-and-armed to the teeth soldiers . Just plain anti-semitic and ouchy.

The Israeli machine is such a despicable obscenity, living and breathing for war, for testing lethal AI and weapons systems on the bodies of civilians, the Palestinian Lab. That's how you prove they work and get top-dollar from other weapons junkies. Monstrous.

Our government continues its complicity.