International aid workers killed by Israeli strike in Gaza

An Israeli air strike allegedly killed seven aid workers on Monday who had been providing assistance to the besieged Gaza Strip, according to nonprofit group World Central Kitchen.

World Central Kitchen aid workers from Australia, Poland, the United Kingdom, and the Palestinian territories and a dual citizen of the United States and Canada were killed in the strike, while the group is now pausing its operations to discuss the “future of our work,” the organization said in a statement.

“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,” the group’s statement continued.

“Today [World Central Kitchen] lost several of our sisters and brothers in an IDF air strike in Gaza,” World Central Kitchen founder Jose Andres wrote on X. “I am heartbroken and grieving for their families and friends and our whole WCK family.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged on Tuesday “a tragic case of our forces unintentionally hitting innocent people in the Gaza Strip” and said that they would “do everything so that this thing does not happen again.”