The indiscriminate killing, the manmade starvation and the bombing of aid workers must bring the west to a moment of decision -Chris McGreal

"The other 200 or more humanitarian workers killed in the war have drawn less attention because they are mostly Palestinians. As objectionable as this is, the attack on the WCK convoy has thrown a global spotlight on two Israeli policies that will be increasing difficult for western governments to downplay now they are the focus of public attention: the Israeli military’s low bar for killing civilians, and its engineering of a food crisis that is creating starvation."

Amid the slaughter and with famine looming, Israel’s allies must say enough is enough. If not now, when?

Chris McGreal

One of the vehicles in which WCK employees were killed in Deir al-Balah on 2 April. Photograph: Ahmed Zakot/Reuters

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/04/slaughter-famine-israel-allies-killing-bombing-aid-workers-west

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"Of course Israel deliberately killed @WCKitchen workers and of course the kitchen will halt its operations in Gaza. That’s exactly what Israel wants….to further starve Palestinians." Diana Buttu

 United States-based aid group World Central Kitchen (WCK) confirmed on Tuesday that its staff members were killed in a “targeted attack” by the Israeli military. The dead were from Palestine, Australia, Poland, the United Kingdom, and US-Canada.

Chef José Andrés 

@chefjoseandres

Today

@WCKitchen

lost several of our sisters and brothers in an IDF air strike in Gaza. I am heartbroken and grieving for their families and friends and our whole WCK family. These are people…angels…I served alongside in Ukraine, Gaza, Turkey, Morocco, Bahamas, Indonesia. They are not faceless…they are not nameless. 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. No more innocent lives lost. Peace starts with our shared humanity. It needs to start now.

 Diana Buttu

@dianabuttu

Of course Israel deliberately killed

@WCKitchen

workers and of course the kitchen will halt its operations in Gaza. That’s exactly what Israel wants….to further starve Palestinians.

 

Diana Buttu reposted

Bel Trew

@Beltrew

For context before killing 7

@WCKitchen

aid workers last night, Israel’s been accused multiple times of bombing aid convoys in Gaza (despite coordination). In Feb

@UNRWA

said one of its food convoys was hit by naval shell as it prepped to go north UN has reported multiple incidents

 

Mosab Abu Toha

@MosabAbuToha

If anyone is waiting for a “thorough and transparent investigation,” they are thoroughly mislead in their belief that this was a mistake. There is no mistake for these people when it comes to targeting civilians, international aid workers, or even clouds that shade for our roofless houses or tents.

 

Susan Muaddi Darraj 

@SusanDarraj

If you're shocked that 7 food aid workers were killed, wait until you hear about the murders of Palestinian journalists, doctors, nurses, teachers, ambulance drivers, mothers, fathers, and the children the children the children #ceasefirenow

 

John Hudson

@John_Hudson

Munition dropped right through the World Central Kitchen logo

Yousef Munayyer

@YousefMunayyer

Reminds me of this, when Israel struck a Red Cross ambulance in Lebanon in 2006 right in the logo. There is a series of such images.

 

Israel struck a Red Cross ambulance in Lebanon in 2006 right in the logo

 

 

World Central Kitchen pauses Gaza operations after workers killed in airstrike

The organization said its workers had been traveling in a "deconflicted zone" in two armored cars carrying the WCK logo and a soft skin vehicle. It said that despite organizing travel with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the convoy was hit as it was leaving a warehouse in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.

 

BBC News "Gaza has no functioning port, so a makeshift jetty stemming from the shoreline was built by WCK's team using rubble from [Israeli] destroyed buildings."

World Central Kitchen barge loaded with food is the first maritime shipment of aid to arrive in Gaza

The first maritime humanitarian aid shipment to Gaza has been unloaded on to the shore.

Gaza: Aid reaches Gaza shore in first sea delivery

"...Saturday's shipment arrived on board Spanish charity ship Open Arms. Its cargo includes beans, carrots, canned tuna, chickpeas, canned corn, parboiled rice, flour, oil, salt and pallets of dates, which hold spiritual significance during Ramadan.

It had been checked by Israeli officials in port in Cyprus.

It marks the start of a trial to see if the sea route would be more effective than air and land deliveries.

Aid agencies have repeatedly warned that no method of relief is as effective as delivery by land, but they say Israeli restrictions mean a fraction of what is needed is getting in.

In a statement, WCK said: "All cargo was offloaded and is being readied for distribution in Gaza."

Teams worked through the night to get the aid on to dry land.

Gaza has no functioning port, so a makeshift jetty stemming from the shoreline was built by WCK's team using rubble from destroyed buildings...."

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