7 aid workers associated with World Central Kitchen, were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza.
Citizens from Australia, Britain, and Poland were among seven people working for the organization, WCK NGO said.
The workers, who also included Palestinians and a dual citizen of the United States and Canada, were traveling in two armored cars having visibility of the NGO WCK logo and another vehicle, WCK said in a statement.
“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,” said Erin Gore, chief executive of World Central Kitchen.
The United Nations and other international groups have accused Israel of hindering aid distribution with bureaucratic obstacles and failing to ensure the security of food convoys, underlined by a disaster on February 29, in which around 100 people were killed as they waited for an aid delivery.
