World Central Kitchen to restart sending food to Gaza, one month after losing seven aid workers
Members of "World Central Kitchen" prepare food for Palestinians, in the location provided.
Humanitarian group World Central Kitchen, which lost seven of its aid workers in an Israeli airstrike a month ago, has announced that it will resumeoperations in Gaza from Monday (April 29).
The World CentralKitchen'soperations were paused by its celebrity chefJoseAndresafterits convoy was hit by Israel Defence Forces on April 1.
In a message, World Central Kitchen (WCK) CEO Erin Gore said that the organisation will“continue to get as much food into Gaza, including northern Gaza, as possible.”
“The humanitarian situation in Gaza remains dire. Weare restartingour operation with the same energy, dignity, and focus on feeding as many people as possible. To date, we have distributed more than 43 million mealsandweare eager to deliver millions more. Food is a universal rightandour work in Gaza has been the most life-saving mission in our 14-year organisational history,”saidGorein the statement.
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WCK promises to deliver food 'with same energy, dignity and focus'
The group, while speaking about the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza, said that they were restarting operations“with the same energy, dignity, and focus”to provide food to as many people as possible as they continue to mourn the loss of their seven colleagues and friends.
“We havebeen forcedto make a decision: stop feeding altogether during one of the worst hunger crises ever, ending our operation that accounted for 62% of all International NGO aid, or keep feeding knowing that aid, aid workers, and civilians are being intimidated and killed,”wrote Erin Gore the CEO of WCK.
“These are the hardest conversationsandwehave toconsider all perspectives when deliberating.Ultimately, we decided that we must keep feeding, continuing our mission of showing up to provide food to people during the toughestoftimes,”she said.
The announcementwas madeless than a month after a three-car convoy carrying seven international aid workerswas struckby an Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) missilein central Gaza.
Watch:Aid ship carrying food supplies from World Central Kitchen charity reaches Gaza coast
The aid workers were identified by the organisation as Saifeddin Issam Ayad Abutaha, a 25-year-old Palestinian; Lalzawmi (Zomi) Frankcom, a 43-year-old Australian; Damian Soból, a 35-year-old from Poland;Jacob Flickinger, a 33-year-old dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada; and security team members John Chapman, 57, James (Jim) Henderson, 33, and James Kirby, 47, all from the United Kingdom.
There are 276 trucks of World Central Kitchenwhichcan transfer almost 8 million meals into Gaza via Rafah.These trucks will also be sentto the enclave via Jordan, WCK said in a statement.
(With inputs from agencies)