1 April 2024
WCKitchen team killed
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!
Haaretz reports here how the IDF bombed the 3 vehicles methodically, each after it returned to rescue survivors from the previous vehicle. All cars were clearly marked & in a safe zone.
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in Deir al-Balah, where they were cooking thousands of meals for people in Gaza; they were among the people who were killed today by Israeli warplanes
Statement by WCKitchen on the death of 7 of its members:
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.
“I am heartbroken and appalled that we—World Central Kitchen and the world—lost beautiful lives today because of a targeted attack by the IDF. The love they had for feeding people, the determination they embodied to show that humanity rises above all, and the impact they made in countless lives will forever be remembered and cherished,” said Erin.
The IDF says it is “carrying out an in-depth examination at the highest levels to understand the circumstances of this tragic incident.”
World Central Kitchen is pausing our operations immediately in the region. We will be making decisions about the future of our work soon.
Israelis congratulating themselves and Americans in denial
Of course not a word on the 400 Palestinians murdered at Al Shifa Hospital
Haaretz report on the WCKitchen massacre
IDF Drone Bombed World Central Kitchen Aid Convoy Three Times, Targeting Armed Hamas Member Who Wasn’t There
An Israeli drone fired three missiles one after the other at a World Central Kitchen convoy escorting an aid truck to a food warehouse in Deir al-Balah, according to defense sources familiar with the details. According to defense sources, the cars were clearly marked as belonging to the organization, but the war room of the unit responsible for securing the route identified an armed man on the truck and suspected that he was a terrorist, sources said. The truck reached the warehouse with the World Central Kitchen’s three cars, with seven volunteers in them – two dual-national Palestinians (U.S. and Canada) and five citizens of Australia, the UK, and Poland.
A few minutes later, the three cars left the warehouse without the truck, on which the ostensibly armed man was located. According to defense sources, that armed man did not leave the warehouse.
At some point, when the convoy was driving along the approved route, the war room of the unit responsible for security of the route ordered the drone operators to attack one of the cars with a missile. Some of the passengers were seen leaving the car after it was hit and switching to one of the other two. They continued to drive and even notified the people responsible that they were attacked, but, seconds later, another missile hit their car.
The third car in the convoy approached, and the passengers began to transfer to it the wounded who had survived the second strike in order to get them out of danger. But then a third missile struck them.
“It’s frustrating,” one of the defense sources told Haaretz. “We’re trying our hardest to accurately hit terrorists, and utilizing every thread of intelligence, “And in the end the units in the field decide to launch attacks without any preparation, in cases that have nothing to do with protecting our forces”.
Commentary on the massacre
Pro-Israel commentary
employees were mistakingly targeted by IDF forces was presented to IDF Chief of the General Staff LTG Herzi Halevi yesterday. Measures taken following the tragic incident include: the dismissal of the brigade fire support commander and the dismissal of the brigade chief of staff from their positions, as well as the reprimand of additional commanders. The investigation’s full conclusions can be found here: https://idf.il/190614