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World Central Kitchen aid workers killed in Israeli attack in Gaza’s Khan Younis
A civil car belonging to the World Central Kitchen (WCK) was targeted by an Israeli drone on the Salah al-Din Street in the eastern side of southern Gaza’s Khan Younis city. Five civilians were killed, including three of the WCK workers without any prior warning.
One of the victims is the director of the charity kitchens here in the Gaza Strip. They are local Palestinians working for the WCK and they were targeted as they were trying to reach one of the places they were operating in.
This is a sign that Israel is escalating its strikes on aid workers.
In April, seven international aid workers of the WCK were targeted in Deir el-Balah while they were travelling in three vehicles belonging to the organisation, with clear WCK signage attached to the car.
The Israeli military at the time justified the attack to be a sort of misidentification but the bleak reality is that in the past few weeks there has been a surge in attacks on buildings considered to be warehouses for the aid organisation.
Aid into Gaza ‘forbidden as a weapon of war’, no safety for aid workers: Oxfam
“It’s not safe for aid workers. It’s not safe for anyone in Gaza,” says Fidaa Al-Araj, an aid worker with Oxfam in Gaza, following the news that more aid workers were killed there today.
Despite coordinating their movements with Israeli forces, there is no guarantee of safety for her and her peers, Al-Araj told Al Jazeera from the southern city of Rafah.
She said Oxfam sends warnings to staff if there are strikes occurring, but it’s a challenge when one area of Gaza is not any safer than another.
“Here we are in the Oxfam premises in the so-called humanitarian-designated area in the southwest of Gaza … I wish you can hear the sounds around me. I have to use a noise reducing technique so as not to get the [sounds of drones] here [through to] my meetings, my interviews,” Al-Araj said.
“The strikes don’t stop. People are killed around the clock.”
Meanwhile, aid into the Strip continues to be blocked by Israel, with no reason given to aid organisations like Oxfam, Al-Araj said.
“You can’t read it any other way than it’s just forbidden as a weapon of war.”
Israel claims one of three aid workers killed in Gaza participated in October 7 attacks
Israeli military spokesperson Avichay Adraee has said without providing any proof that the army killed a man who purportedly took part in last year’s October 7 attack on Israel.
The army is also claiming the man, who they identified as Ahed Azmi Qadih, was employed by the World Central Kitchen (WCK).
“The terrorist had been under intelligence surveillance for a long time and was targeted based on reliable intelligence information about his location in real time,” Adraee said in a post on X.
As we have been reporting, an Israeli attack on a vehicle in Gaza’s Khan Younis killed five people, including three WCK workers and two volunteer rescue workers.
The Israeli military did not mention other victims of the attack.
World Central Kitchen halts distribution of meals in Gaza after its workers killed
The World Central Kitchen (WCK) aid group has been running a lot of community kitchens in Gaza – and most of the population completely relies on them.
Today, the Israeli military targeted a car in Khan Younis with one missile, killing three workers from WCK. Some people went and tried to rescue them, so then another missile struck two volunteers rescue workers.
This is not the first time the Israeli forces targeted the World Central Kitchen. In April, Israeli forces killed four international WCK workers.
After today’s attack, the community kitchens did not work and serve people. So, it’s beyond attacking Palestinians, Palestinian workers, aid organisations, it’s attacking all sources of aid, and all sources of community kitchens, and those who have been working tirelessly to prevent starvation in Gaza.
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WCK said it “had no knowledge that any individual in the vehicle had alleged ties to the October 7 Hamas attack”.
More details on deadly Israeli strike on aid worker car
At Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis, a woman held up an employee badge bearing the World Central Kitchen (WCK) logo, the word “contractor” and the name of a man said to have been killed in the Israeli attack.
Belongings – burned phones, a watch and stickers with the WCK logo – lay on the hospital floor.
Nazmi Ahmed said his nephew worked for WCK for the past year. He said he was driving to the charity’s kitchens and warehouses. “Today, he went out as usual to work … and was targeted without prior warning and without any reason,” Ahmed said.
In April, a strike on a WCK aid convoy killed seven workers – three British citizens, Polish and Australian nationals, a Canadian-American dual national and a Palestinian. The Israeli military called the strike a “mistake”.
The destroyed vehicle in which employees of the World Central Kitchen were killed on Saturday
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