{"id":284774,"date":"2024-04-02T06:53:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T06:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=284774"},"modified":"2024-04-04T06:19:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T06:19:56","slug":"briton-and-dual-us-citizen-among-seven-killed-in-israeli-strike-in-gaza-food-aid-charity-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=284774","title":{"rendered":"Briton and dual US citizen among seven killed in Israeli strike in Gaza, food aid charity says"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Guardian \u2013 April 2, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Seven killed in Gaza strike, food charity says<\/h2>\n<p>World Central Kitchen says seven of its team members were killed in what it called an Israeli military strike in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The toll updates an earlier number of five.<\/p>\n<p>The food charity said in a statement on its website that the seven killed were from Australia, Poland, the UK, a dual citizen of the US and Canada, and Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>World Central Kitchen\u2019s chief executive, <strong>Erin Gore<\/strong>, said its team was \u201ctravelling in a deconflicted zone in two armored cars branded with the WCK logo and a soft skin vehicle\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Despite coordinating movements with the IDF [Israel Defence Forces], the convoy was hit as it was leaving the Deir al-Balah warehouse, where the team had unloaded more than 100 tons of humanitarian food aid brought to Gaza on the maritime route.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Gore also said:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>This is not only an attack against WCK, this is an attack on humanitarian organisations showing up in the most dire of situations where food is being used as a weapon of war. This is unforgivable.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Israeli Defence Forces said it was conducting a \u201cthorough review\u201d into what occurred.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2024\/apr\/02\/middle-east-crisis-live-updates-israel-gaza-war-today-gaza-foreign-aid-workers-killed-idf-investigation\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aid volunteers from Australia, Poland, the UK, a dual citizen of the US and Canada, and Palestine were killed in the Israeli strike. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=284774"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284791,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284774\/revisions\/284791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}