According to Palestine's Sama news agency, Jose Andres said that the Israeli forces targeted the cars of their employees in Gaza purposefully and one after the other in the civilian area under the control of the Israeli army and that soldiers were aware of the movements of the relief forces at the time of the attack.
We will evaluate the situation in Gaza to see when we will be able to resume our activities, he said a day after WCK announced it is halting its aid operation in the region following an Israeli airstrike that left 7 members of the charity dead.
The founder of the World Central Kitchen stressed that hunger in Gaza is an obvious fact and accused the United States of abandoning the Palestinian nation.
On Monday, the charity announced the death of its workers who according to the organization's statement, were Australian, Polish, Canadian-American, British and Palestinian.
The attack happened hours after the members of this non-governmental group arrived in the Gaza Strip with a ship containing food aid and went to its northern areas.
Meanwhile, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez rejected the reasons provided by the Zionist authorities about the attack on the employees of the World Central Kitchen Organization.
Sanchez said the explanations given by the Israeli authorities are insufficient and unacceptable.
On Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the attack a sad incident, but he tried to downplay it by saying that this mistake happens in the war.
We are conducting a thorough investigation, are in contact with the governments, and will do everything we can to avoid something like this happening again, Netanyahu said amid international condemnations over the attack.
“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,” WCK CEO Erin Gore said in a statement. “This is unforgivable.”
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