Ruthie Russo/Screenshot, Instagram
Yesterday (Monday) an air strike was carried out in Deir al-Balah, in the attack several employees of the organization WCK (World Central Kitchen) were killed - citizens from Australia, Great Britain, Poland and Denmark. The organization announced an immediate halt to the activity in the Gaza Strip and the IDF launched an in-depth investigation.
It turns out that the civilians who were killed are the friends of chef
Ruthie Russo
, with whom she volunteered in the past. In a story she uploaded to her Instagram account, she shared the difficult news and said goodbye: "I am crushed! Seven employees of the World Kitchen Organization - an organization with which we distributed 2 million hot meals in Israel during the war, we fed evacuees, elderly people who failed to evacuate, survivors of the Novaya, farmers, the abductees who returned - were killed tonight in Gaza by an aerial bombardment of their vehicle."
The organization said: "We are aware To the reports that members of the 'Global Central Kitchen' team were killed in an IDF attack while working to support our humanitarian food delivery efforts in Gaza. This is a tragedy. Humanitarian aid workers and civilians should never be a target. Never again."
Ruthie Russo's story/screenshot, Instagram
The IDF stated: "Following the reports of the incident concerning the employees of the WCK organization in the Gaza Strip, the IDF began an in-depth investigation of the incident by the highest ranks, in order to understand all the circumstances of the incident. The IDF is making great efforts to enable the safe passage of aid Humanitarian, and work in full cooperation and coordination with the WCK organization in order to support their efforts to provide food and humanitarian aid to the residents of the Gaza Strip."
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