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“We Were Targeted Deliberately,” José Andrés Says Of IDF Attack That Killed Seven World Central Kitchen Workers In Gaza; Asks For U.S. Government Investigation


The attack that killed seven World Central Kitchen team members delivering food in Gaza was "not just a bad luck situation," said Andrés.

One day after President Joe Biden said he was “ outraged and heartbroken ” over an Israel Defense Force attack that killed seven World Central Kitchen team members distributing food in Gaza, WCK founder José Andrés gave an emotional interview to Reuters in which he said, “What I know is that we were targeted deliberately, nonstop until everybody was dead in this convoy.” Israel has expressed “extreme sorrow” over the deaths, and the country’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the attack on aid workers was not intentional. “This was not just a bad luck situation where ‘oops’ we dropped the bomb in the wrong place,” Andres told Reuters.

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