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World Central Kitchen founder José Andrés said Monday that several of the group’s employees were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza. Andrés, a celebrity chef, called those who died his “sisters and brothers” and “angels” in a statement on social media.
“The Israeli government needs to stop this indiscriminate killing. It needs to stop restricting humanitarian aid, stop killing civilians and aid workers, and stop using food as a weapon,” Andrés wrote on social media.
“I served alongside [them] in Ukraine, Gaza, Turkey, Morocco, Bahamas, Indonesia,” Andrés wrote of those killed on Monday. “They are not faceless…they are not nameless.”
“If they are aid workers, they are civilians, and civilians are protected from attack under the law of war,” said Brian Finucane, a former legal adviser at the State Department and now a senior adviser at Crisis Group.
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We’ve had UNRWA = Hamas, now let me introduce you to World Central Kitchen = Hamas
Some of the casualties NSFL (Gore + Death): images
They are helping Palestinians survive despite all of Israel’s efforts to exterminate them. They are clearly anti-Semitic. /s
I didn’t kill a Palestinian child with a bomb today. Does that make me anti-semetic?
That depends, did you condemn Hamas while you were busy doing something else?
By now the aid workers can claim they have the right to defend themselves and invade Israel
Also interesting: According to a new Haaretz article seems like it were at least three drone strikes against these WFC employees after people managed to crawl out of the first car alive. At least one of the subsequently bombed cars had (some) evacuated WFC employees rescued from first strike. The IDF really wanted those WFC employees dead. This guy on Twitter raises some more good points
- What this tell us is that the IDF will kill an almost unlimited or undefined number of civilians in order to potentially kill one Hamas member of unspecific rank or commitment
Did we already forget the Jabalia camp strike? The IDF felt comfortable purposefully and deliberately bombing women and children taking refuge, as long as they kill a Hamas mid-level commander with the +195 civilians.
There is little to no evidence to suggest they are targeting Hamas in these strikes. It appears they are directly targeting civilians anywhere they are gathered, especially when they are gathered for assistance.
Isreal does not need our help. They are not “defending” against anything. They are committing genocide.
Defund Israel.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“We are aware of reports that members of the World Central Kitchen team have been killed in an IDF attack while working to support our humanitarian food delivery efforts in Gaza,” a spokesperson for the group said.
World Central Kitchen did not name those killed in its statement, though videos of a news conference held at al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital on Monday appeared to show the passports of foreign nationals from Britain, Poland and Australia with the dead.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Tuesday local time that the death of World Central Kitchen aid worker Lalzawmi Frankcom, known to her friends as Zomi, was “completely unacceptable.”
In an order last week, the International Court of Justice called on Israel to “take all necessary and effective measures” to ensure the provision of basic services and humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in the enclave.
It quickly grew into a high-profile relief organization for natural disasters and war zones, as Andrés used his status to raise awareness of crises in places such as Ukraine and Haiti.
In Gaza, the organization most notably led the construction of a jetty that allowed a ship chartered by the Spanish search-and-rescue group Open Arms to send about 200 tons of food and water to the enclave.
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