The Israeli Defense Force said it's begun a thorough investigation into the incident.
A Palestinian woman sits on a cart next to a box of food rations provided by U.S. charity World Central Kitchen at a makeshift street market in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip in March. Photo: Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty Images' NGO "World Central Kitchen" and a local driver were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip on Monday, the organization said in a statement.
The organization has been leading the efforts to get food to Gaza via sea and delivered tons of supplies to Gaza twice in a ship from Cyprus over the past few weeks."This is a tragedy. Humanitarian aid workers and civilians should NEVER be a target. EVER," World Central Kitchen said in a"The Israeli government needs to stop this indiscriminate killing.
"Humanitarian aid workers must be protected as they deliver aid that is desperately needed, and we urge Israel to swiftly investigate what happened," she added.The Israeli Defense Force said in a statement that senior officers had began a thorough investigation into the incident in order to understand what happened.
"The IDF is making efforts to allow safe passage of humanitarian aid and is working in full coordination and cooperation with world central kitchen in order to support their efforts to provide food to the people of Gaza," the Israeli military statement said.The U.S., the UN and many aid organizations have been urging Israel's government for months to do more to improve its deconfliction mechanisms to avoid targeting aid convoys.
The Biden administration raised this issue on a very high level with the Israeli government several times, but there was little change on the ground, U.S. officials say.Editor's note: This article has been updated with comment from an Israeli official on the nationality of the aid workers who were killed, and with reaction from National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson.
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