World Central Kitchen

José Andrés mourns slain World Central Kitchen workers in National Cathedral service

2:15pm April 25, 2024

by Bill Chappell

"They risked everything to feed people they did not know," the chef and founder of the humanitarian group said of the seven aid workers who were killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza.

A Palestinian is carrying boxes of aid distributed before the Eid al-Fitr holiday, which marks the end of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, on Monday.

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How much aid's waiting to enter Gaza? Depends who you ask

6:00am April 10, 2024

by James Hider

Humanitarian aid trucks sit at Gaza's border. Yet Israeli officials deny aid groups' accusations that they're restricting aid or that Palestinians in Gaza are starving.

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Israel's military dismisses officers over World Central Kitchen airstrike

10:11am April 05, 2024

by Daniel Estrin

An investigation by the Israeli military's general staff concluded the airstrike, which killed seven aid workers, violated its standards and "should not have occurred."

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President Biden called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday to express concerns about Israeli strikes that killed aid workers and humanitarian conditions in Gaza.

Biden warns Netanyahu that U.S. policy on Gaza hinges on improved conditions there

8:34pm April 04, 2024

by Tamara Keith

President Biden spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after seven aid workers with World Central Kitchen were killed in Israeli strikes. He said a cease-fire is needed so aid can get in.

Members of the public join a walking vigil through the streets of Falmouth, England, for British aid worker James Henderson, organized by Palestine Solidarity Cornwall, April 3. Three British men working for World Central Kitchen were killed along with four colleagues when their clearly marked vehicles were targeted by Israeli military strikes.

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Why a majority of Britons want the U.K. to halt arms exports to Israel

1:37pm April 04, 2024

Countries including Canada, the Netherlands and Spain say they're suspending arms sales to Israel. After an Israeli strike killed British World Central Kitchen workers in Gaza, will the U.K. too?

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Relatives and friends mourn the death of Saifeddin Issam Ayad Abutaha, a member of the U.S.-based aid group World Central Kitchen who was killed as Israeli strikes hit its convoy delivering food in Gaza, during his funeral in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday.

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These are the World Central Kitchen aid workers killed by Israeli airstrike in Gaza

4:02pm April 03, 2024

Three of those killed by an Israeli airstrike were British and the others were Australian, Palestinian, Polish and a dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada.

José Andrés unloads food packages delivered by World Central Kitchen in Kherson, Ukraine in November 2022.

World Central Kitchen, led by a humanitarian chef, has fed crisis zones for years

1:26pm April 02, 2024

by Rachel Treisman

World Central Kitchen has long brought food to war zones and disaster areas around the world. The deaths of seven of its workers in Gaza come on top of the loss of six workers in Ukraine.

Celebrity chef Jose Andres meets with senators at the U.S. Capitol about getting humanitarian aid to Gaza on March 14. Andres said Monday that his organization has lost "several" of its international volunteers in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip.

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An Israeli airstrike has killed World Central Kitchen workers in Gaza, founder says

10:13pm April 01, 2024

by James Hider

José Andrés, the founder of the organization that feeds people in war and disaster zones, said Monday that "several" international volunteers were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip.

Open Arms members carry humanitarian aid for Gaza in a joint mission between NGOs Open Arms and World Central Kitchen at a port of Larnaca, Cyprus, March 9.

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An aid ship is en route to Gaza, in a test of a sea corridor for the war-torn enclave

3:28pm March 14, 2024

by Jane Arraf

A humanitarian ship is piloting a new sea route to bring food to Gaza to help avert famine after five months of war and Israeli restrictions on aid.

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