The American organization did not specify the number of its fellow victims, indicating that it had only “incomplete information” on the facts.
Published on 30/11/2024 18:15
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While humanitarians are paying a heavy price in the war between Israel and Hamas, the American NGO World Central Kitchen announced on Saturday, November 30, that it was suspending its operations in the Gaza Strip, after a deadly Israeli strike on a vehicle in which some of its employees were circulating. “We are heartbroken to learn that a vehicle carrying colleagues from World Central Kitchen was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza”declared the NGO in a press release without specifying the number of its colleagues affected, saying for the moment it only had“incomplete information” on the facts.
The Israeli military has confirmed that one of the Palestinian aid workers whose deaths Gaza Civil Defense announced Saturday in an Israeli airstrike worked for World Central Kitchen. The IDF states in a statement that it is a “terrorist” Who “infiltrated Israel and participated in the October 7 massacre in Kibbutz Nir Oz”very close to the Gaza Strip, and which moreover “he worked for the WCK organization”.
In April, seven humanitarian workers from the NGO had were killed in a strike while distributing food in the Gaza Strip. WCK was founded in 2010 by Spanish-American chef José Andres and his wife. The organization notably intervened for food distribution in Haiti, Ukraine and Morocco during the earthquake of February 2023. Its teams as well as the Palestinian cooks working with it have served tens of millions of meals in the Gaza Strip since October 2023, as WCK affirmed in New York Times(New window).
