Browsing: World Central Kitchen

Celebrity chef and founder of the nonprofit World Central Kitchen, José Andrés, paid tribute to his seven employees who were killed during an aid mission in Gaza at a service at the Washington National Cathedral on Thursday. “They sacrificed everything to provide food to people they didn't know and would never encounter,” he stated, describing his employees as the finest examples of humanity. “Their…

John Kirby, White House national security communications adviser, said the U.S. will wait and see what Israel does in the coming hours and days and U.S. policy is hung on the protection of aid workers. Kirby joined Fox News Channel’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto” Thursday shortly after President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Thursday said she would take steps to prevent the sale of F-15s to Israel after seven aid workers were killed in an Israel airstrike in Gaza earlier this week.  “I think it is clear that Congress has a responsibility to act. We have legal tools here. And as I said, we…

President Biden was deeply upset and sad after an Israeli strike killed several humanitarian workers in Gaza. He called on Israel to carry out a thorough investigation and make the results public. Biden praised the World Central Kitchen workers killed in the blast, including an American citizen, describing them as brave and selfless.

International outrage came quickly after an Israeli attack killed six foreign aid workers of U.S.-based aid group World Central Kitchen and their Palestinian driver in Gaza on Monday.   The group said staff from Australia, the United Kingdom, Poland and a U.S.-Canada citizen were killed in the strike, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later admitted came…

Celebrity chef José Andrés condemned Israel for its 'unselective killing' after seven workers from his charity were killed while delivering aid to people in Gaza. “The Israeli government must cease this unselective killing. It must end its limitations on humanitarian aid, stop harming civilians and aid workers, and refrain from using food as a tool of war,” Andrés expressed…

President Biden called chef José Andrés to express his sadness after an Israeli strike killed seven aid workers from his charity group World Central Kitchen, in Gaza. “He called chef José Andrés to express that he’s heartbroken by this news of the airstrike that killed seven aid workers and to express and share…

Seven aid workers with the World Central Kitchen were killed Monday in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, according to the nongovernmental organization. The workers were leaving a warehouse in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, and driving in a “deconflicted zone” in two armored cars when the strike hit, the World Central Kitchen (WCK) said. The…

A three-ship convoy departed Cyprus for Gaza early Saturday, with 400 tons of food and other supplies, the second delivery of the kind recently as concerns about widespread famine in the region grow. The aid deliveries are organized by World Central Kitchen (WCK). The boats are carrying ready-to-eat items like rice, pasta, flour, legumes, canned…

The first ship carrying 200 tons of food gathered by World Central Kitchen (WCK) arrived in Gaza Friday and, the organization announced, more will be coming soon. WCK, the charity founded by celebrity chef José Andrés, released a statement that its team unloaded the aid in Gaza. The food was carried on a ship by…