The NGO World Central Kitchen announced this Sunday that it will resume its humanitarian operations in the Gaza Strip Loop for the first time, after last April 1 a Israeli bombing will kill seven of its employees and collaborators.
“We are going to restart our operations with the same energy, dignity and concentration when it comes to feeding as many people as possible,” said the head of the NGO, Erin Gore, in a release published this Sunday.
The NGO acknowledges that it has received apologies from Israel for the attack that killed its members, but estimates that it still has no guarantees that the Israeli Army has modified its operational rules. “Our demand for an impartial investigation and international is still valid,” added Gore.
Gore has indicated that throughout these weeks WCK collaborators have been exposed to a decision between “stopping delivering food during one of the worst food crises in history” or continuing with their work “knowing that aid workers and civilians in Gaza are being intimidated and killed.”
This deliberation has represented “the toughest conversations of these days” until “in the end, it has been decided that (WCK) continues with its mission of deliver food to people, even in the hardest moments.
In this sense, WCK has 276 trucks ready, with the equivalent of almost eight million meals, ready to enter through the Rafah crossing, through Egypt. The NGO also intends to send trucks from Jordan and is already exploring the possibility of delivering food through the new sea corridor to Gaza or through the Israeli port of Ashdod.
WCK workers and associates died in a Israeli aviation bombing as his convoy left a warehouse in the center of the Gaza Strip. Among the deceased were Australian, British, Palestinian, Polish and dual American and Canadian citizens.
Israel published the results of a preliminary investigation that ensures that they confused the workers of the NGO with armed militiamen Hamas, despite the fact that the group had communicated its movements to the Israeli authorities. The consequence has been the dismissal of two officers from the Israeli forces.
