José Andrés, a celebrity chef and founder of the World Central Kitchen, said Wednesday that Israel killed aid workers for his organization “systematically” and “car by car.”
Seven WCK workers, including an American and three British nationals, were killed by an Israeli drone that targeted three cars with at least three missiles until there were no survivors left. Israeli officials have claimed it was an accident, an assertion backed by the US, but Andrés said he wasn’t buying the story.
The WCK workers also coordinated with the Israeli military and were traveling along a pre-approved route when they were killed. “This was not just a bad luck situation where ‘oops’ we dropped the bomb in the wrong place,” Andrés said, according to Reuters. “Even if we were not in coordination with the (Israeli military), no democratic country and no military can be targeting civilians and humanitarians.”
Andrés, a Spanish-American, said the US should do more to stop Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. “The US must do more to tell Prime Minister Netanyahu this war needs to end now,” he said.
Andrés had previously defended Israel’s conduct in Gaza in response to a Spanish minister calling it a genocide back in October. “You as minister have to first recognize that the Hamas attack against civilians is a terrorist act… and that Israel is defending its citizens… then you can ask for restraint and respect for the lives of civilians in Gaza,” he wrote on X.
The Grayzone recently reported that the US and Israel were working closely with Andrés and the WCK and saw the aid group as a potential replacement for the UN’s Palestinian relief agency, UNRWA. The US stopped funding UNRWA over unsubstantiated claims from Israel that 12 of its employees participated in the October 7 attack.
The Israeli killing of the aid workers has led the WCK and other aid organizations to suspend operations in Gaza, and some aid has been turned back, contributing to the Israeli starvation blockade on the Strip.
If the US cared they’d stop funding the massacre and drive their own damn trucks right in.
Do more? They are not doing shit except fueling this. And then making excuses to cover for Israel.
Lowkey
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So, it appears that the three British citizens Israel killed in Gaza last night were actually employed to be there by British intelligence firm Solace Global.
https://twitter.com/Lowkey0nline/status/1775266186835763585
To be honest, I would be surprised if any organisation working in Gaza was doing so without having any security protection, it wouldn’t make sense. This does however convince me more than ever that this was a deliberate and targeted attack by the IDF.
I get it, but a 3 man security detail makes no sense against bombs.
Come on, guys, as Israel has said this was just an ‘accidental but deliberate’ ‘planned mistake’, in which the Israeli military ‘intentionally but unintentionally’ targeted and then ‘randomly but deliberately’ fired 3 missiles from a UAV, at a convoy of ‘clearly marked but hard to see’ vehicles full of ‘charity/aid workers that may have been Hamas fighters’, while it was travelling in a ‘deconflicted zone that was also a war zone’.
Not just that – Israel has assured us all that this accidental and yet deliberate targeted attack on non-combatants, like all the others before them, will be ‘investigated’.
Also – Gaza is a ‘non-genocide genocide’ and even if it is an actual genocide, it’s OK because Israel is allowed to commit genocides.
Orwell is turning in his grave.
I know, all these accidents are so awful, the way over 35,000 Palestinians have accidently been mistaken for Hamas members, all of the five year old children who were members of the Hamas cadet force.
Does Netanyahu and the IDF think we are stupid. When the BBC etc. put out statements by the IDF, they are actively encouraging Israel in this barbaric charade.
Israel are committing genocide and war crimes and the US, UK and others are enabling them.
Yes.
And it worked, no more aid workers, means fewer witnesses and faster starvation.
A Nation without a soul, is a very dark place and perhaps should not exist at all?……
I continue not to understand
Andrés. Why did he think his people had to feed Palestinians in an artificially created famine if Israel were behaving like a normal state? He didn’t realize this two days ago?
Andrés had previously defended Israel’s conduct in Gaza in response to a Spanish minister calling it a genocide back in October. “You as minister have to first recognize that the Hamas attack against civilians is a terrorist act… and that Israel is defending its citizens… then you can ask for restraint and respect for the lives of civilians in Gaza,” he wrote on X.
What the fu*k does one have to do with the other? Otherwise let them starve to death?