The civil defense of the Gaza Strip confirmed on Saturday the death of three humanitarian workers in a strike in Khan Younes, in the south of the Palestinian territory, confirming information given earlier by the Palestinian news agency WAFa. The humanitarians, Palestinians, worked for World Central Kitchen (WCK). When contacted, the American NGO did not respond immediately. The Israeli army, for its part, said it had carried out a strike on “a vehicle in which was a terrorist who participated in the October 7 massacre”adding that “the claim that the terrorist was at the same time a WCK worker is being examined”.
According to the spokesperson for civil defense in Gaza, Mahmoud Bassal, the three humanitarians “were hit while driving (…) a jeep which belongs to WCK in Khan Younès although the vehicle is marked with a logo » de l'ONG “clearly visible”. On this point, the army added that the car it targeted was “an unmarked civilian vehicle” and that his movement was not coordinated for the transport of aid.
The 1is Last April, seven aid workers from the organization founded by famous chef José Andrés died in a series of three Israeli strikes on their convoy in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army has admitted errors at various levels. On April 28, the NGO announced that it was resuming its operations in the Gaza Strip. On Friday, she announced on a social network that she was working with a bakery in southern Gaza to provide 23,000 loaves of bread per day in a ravaged territory threatened with famine, according to the UN.
