Humanitarian organization World Central Kitchen (WCK) announced on Tuesday that suspends its activities in Gaza, after confirming this at least seven of its employees They were killed “as a result of an attack by the Israel Defense Forces.”

“Team WCK “I was driving in the de-escalation zone in two armored vehicles with the logo” organization, the group said in a statement.

Attack cost the lives of a humanitarian team According to the non-governmental organization, it includes a Briton, a Pole, an Australian and a dual US-Canadian citizen, as well as three Palestinians.

The organization assured that this was a “tragedy” and thatHumanitarian workers “should never be targeted.”

“We have received word that members of the World Central Kitchen team killed in an IDF attack as they worked to support our humanitarian food efforts in Gaza. This is a tragedy. Aid workers and civilians should NEVER be targeted. NEVER,” the NGO posted on its social media account X (formerly Twitter).

It is believed that this first foreign aid workers killed in the Gaza war, which began on October 7, which has already killed more than 32,800 people, most of them women and children.

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This is stated in a statement by the Israeli army. “carry out a thorough review at the highest level understand the circumstances of this tragic incident” and confirmed that they were “working closely” with WCK. -founded by the famous Spanish chef living in the USA, José Andres- for the distribution of food and humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip.

The North American NGO took part on 15 March. in the arrival of 200 tons of food and water in Gaza, the opening of a sea corridor aboard the Open Arms ship, and despite calls from the international community and other humanitarian organizations that only the massive arrival of food by land will ease the impending famine in Gaza.

For his part, chef José Andrés wrote that dead people are angels along with those who worked in Ukraine, the Gaza Strip, Turkey, Morocco, the Bahamas, Indonesia.

“They are not anonymous… they are not anonymous. The Israeli government must put an end to these indiscriminate killings. It must stop restricting humanitarian aid, stop killing civilians and aid workers, and stop using food as a weapon. No more innocent lives will be lost. Peace begins with our common humanity. “It has to start now,” he said.

(according to information from EFE And Europe Press)