World Central Kitchen is pausing our operations immediately in the region

[Donkees]

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.

https://wck.org/news/gaza-team-update

[Donkees]

1. Aid worker bodies to be transported to Egypt

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society says the bodies of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers killed are being prepared for evacuation through the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt.

The bodies were transported to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Gaza’s Deir el-Balah city, and then to Abu Youssef al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/4/2/israels-war-on-gaza-live-five-aid-workers-killed-after-delivering-food

[Think. Again.]

2. Israel, under the leadership of rightwing netanyahu, has lost all respectable standing.

[brush]

3. It's only going to get worse now that warmonger Netanyahu has expanded the war...

by attacking the Iranian consulate in Syria.

We're all waiting for Iran to respond and wondering how it will come.

[Takket]

4. Heartbreaking. There is just no excuse for this.

Israel owes the world an explanation of what happened.

[Lonestarblue]

7. They'll give an explanation, but it will be lies to make the IDF look better.

Netanyahu is Israel’s Trump—doesn’t know how to tell the truth and does everything to benefit himself.

[rubbersole]

15. And regular citizens will pay the piper.

For generations.

[LiberalArkie]

16. It seems that every time an aid org notifies the IDF about something, they are hit by the IDF.

[Mopar151]

5. Its the corruption that creates monsters.

Ideology is merely a way to structure authouratarian control , in service to an elite.

[Voltaire2]

6. A deliberate act.

There is a genocide in progress in Gaza.

[Goddessartist]

8. A deliberate attack,

amidst an ongoing genocide. I have not been posting as it is just too hard to bear, but I, and we, must bear witness and work to stop this ongoing genocide.

Bless those who have been murdered by the IDF.

[Donkees]

9. Artists bear witness

Abu Shtayyah created an image of a woman rising up from a Gaza village [AJE]

“The woman is at the centre of our culture. They create and nurture the next generation,” she explains. The image she created of a woman rising up from a Gaza village, with a skirt made of destroyed homes, became one of the most shared artworks on Facebook, with many using it as their profile photo.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/9/24/gaza-inspiring-new-forms-of-resistance

[Goddessartist]

11. Thank you,

Donkees, for this. Perhaps I should make a piece.

[Donkees]

12. Gather the grief and release it in beauty

[Goddessartist]

13. I will.

Thank you

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. Huh weird move for an army that brags about its morality

[malaise]

14. No words

[Danascot]

17. There's no excuse for this

"Despite coordinating movements with the IDF, the convoy was hit as it was leaving the Deir al-Balah warehouse."

There's no definitive answer at this point for whether the attack was deliberate but the above quote is suggestive.

Edit: Further info here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218829510

[David__77]

18. Israel's strategy is make life for non-combatants impossible.

To destroy the means of sustenance for non-combatants. To create conditions in which it is too dangerous to assist the living.