Israel Kills Seven World Central Kitchen Food Aid Workers in Gaza With Three Targeted Airstrikes [UPDATED]
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Chris Menahan
UPDATE: Evidence is coming out indicating that Israel hunted the World Central Kitchen’s aid workers down and killed them and their attempted rescuers in three separate strikes.
The horrifying details emerging about the World Central Kitchen massacre: The convoy was struck 3 times in succession, with the drone chasing the wounded aid workers from vehicle to vehicle to make sure they were all killed. No legit pretext and precise coordination with the IDF. https://t.co/8v46ZMI23q
— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) April 2, 2024
The distance between each bombed WCK & the other shows beyond any doubt how the IDF took their time to deliberately & surgically eliminate the entire crew.
The 2nd car was bombed after it rescued the survivors of the 1st, & the 3rd after it rescued the survivors from the 2nd! pic.twitter.com/7Qv082wf5C
— Muhammad Shehada (@muhammadshehad2) April 2, 2024
🚨Israel admits it deliberately bombed the WCK foreign aid workers 3 times in a row, but yells “KHAMAS” to justify it!
Israel bombed the 1st car, some of the staff ran to a 2nd car, but the IDF bombed it & wounded them
A 3rd car came & the IDF bombed it, killing all aid workers pic.twitter.com/oDGiahhWk6
— Muhammad Shehada (@muhammadshehad2) April 2, 2024
Israel claims their drones spotted an armed individual gaurding a WCK aid truck (i.e. a policeman preventing looting) that traveled in a convoy with 3 WCK cars.
That was enough reason for the IDF to bomb each single one of the 3 cars & slaughter everyone!https://t.co/AnEww6vS4d
— Muhammad Shehada (@muhammadshehad2) April 2, 2024
Israel tried to cover-up the targeted attack by claiming they suspected a “terrorist” was traveling with the convoy.
Even Israel’s excuse for shooting 3 missiles at a convoy of World Central Aid workers – on an approved route in clearly marked cars – is reprehensible: they mistakenly thought there was one armed “terrorist.”
Many US supporters of Israel won’t care that an American was killed: pic.twitter.com/BqIPKsIrCq
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 2, 2024
*** Original article follows ***
Israel killed an international group of seven food aid workers from celebrity chef Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen in a “targeted” airstrike on Monday in Gaza.
The World Central Kitchen was coordinating with Israel and sharing their location with the IDF throughout their time in Gaza yet they were directly hit in a deconflicted zone after having “unloaded more than 100 tons of humanitarian food aid [at a warehouse] brought to Gaza on the maritime route.”
.@WCKitchen says its seven employees were killed in “a targeted attack by the IDF” after they “unloaded more than 100 tons of humanitarian food aid brought to Gaza.”
As a result, WCK is “pausing our operations immediately” in Gaza. The Israeli regime, armed by the Biden White… https://t.co/V7bt0Is64W
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 2, 2024
From World Central Kitchen, “7 WCK team members killed in Gaza”:
World Central Kitchen is devastated to confirm seven members of our team have been killed in an IDF strike in Gaza.
The WCK team was traveling in a deconflicted zone in two armored cars branded with the WCK logo and a soft skin vehicle.
Despite coordinating movements with the IDF, the convoy was hit as it was leaving the Deir al-Balah warehouse, where the team had unloaded more than 100 tons of humanitarian food aid brought to Gaza on the maritime route.
“This is not only an attack against WCK, this is an attack on humanitarian organizations showing up in the most dire of situations where food is being used as a weapon of war. This is unforgivable,” said World Central Kitchen CEO Erin Gore.
The seven killed are from Australia, Poland, United Kingdom, a dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada, and Palestine.
A clearly targeted Israeli strike on an aid group led by a State Dept “culinary ambassador” which coordinated its movements with the Israeli army. All designed to end its aid operations and perpetuate mass starvation in Gaza. Now watch the Biden admin minimize this. https://t.co/0PYYmFYvwV
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) April 2, 2024
The last footage captured by two of aid workers affiliated with The World Central Kitchen, diligently preparing meals for displaced Palestinians in Gaza.
Tragically, these two volunteers were among those killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted their convoy in Deir al-Balah… pic.twitter.com/Gm65liXFhJ
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) April 2, 2024
The Australian aid worker with Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen, reported to have been killed by an Israeli air strike, along with 5 of her colleagues, appeared on MSNBC last fall
May her memory and the selfless life she lived be a blessing pic.twitter.com/N0ggSDro5z
— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) April 1, 2024
Prior to Gaza, Damian Soból worked with @WCKitchen in a number of sites, from serving civilians during the war in Ukraine to feeding displaced citizens following the earthquakes in Turkey and Morocco.
His Instagram stories give you a sense of who he was: https://t.co/y6NuOFYFto pic.twitter.com/cbywx03RtQ
— Mai El-Sadany (@maitelsadany) April 2, 2024
“They’re all dead.”
After Israel killed seven aid workers in air strikes targeting the convoy transporting them in Deir al-Balah, a local Palestinian man identified the deceased as being staff from the World Central Kitchen organisation.
The nationalities of the aid workers are… pic.twitter.com/MCvBkYqjQo
— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) April 2, 2024
A very serious incident. .
Israeli military bombed three cars belonging to foreign nationals of the [@WCKitchen] south Deir Balah.
5 of them were murdered including a British, an australian and a polish pic.twitter.com/dZz9T9kJP0
— Younis Tirawi | يونس (@ytirawi) April 1, 2024
World Central Kitchen Relief Organization: The killing of our team in the Israeli attack is a tragedy, and humanitarian relief workers and civilians should not be targets. pic.twitter.com/Tra59MHJbl
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) April 2, 2024
Chef Andres strongly defended Israel’s war on Gaza in mid October from claims made by Spanish minister Ione Belarra that Israel was committing genocide and not letting in humanitarian aid.
On Monday, he changed his tune:
Graphic video of the workers killed was shared on social media.
The UN-backed global hunger monitor the Integrated Food-Security Phase Classification (IPC) reported last month that Gaza is on the brink of mass starvation and death.
