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A number of US lawmakers took to X on Tuesday to criticize the Israeli killing of the seven help employees from the World Central Kitchen (WCK) within the Gaza Strip.
Unbiased Sen. Bernie Sanders mentioned seven “courageous” help employees have been killed by an Israeli airstrike Monday whereas making an attempt to feed ravenous individuals in Gaza.
“(Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu known as it an accident. Israel has killed greater than 200 help employees in 6 months. That is not an accident. No extra help for Netanyahu’s battle machine,” Sanders wrote.
The US-based charity confirmed earlier that seven of its humanitarian help employees have been killed within the strike in Gaza. They have been nationals of Australia, Poland, the UK and Palestine, in addition to a US-Canada twin citizen.
Netanyahu mentioned Israeli forces “unintentionally hit harmless individuals” in a “tragic incident.”
Sen. Peter Welch mentioned lower than two weeks in the past WCK founder Jose Andres briefed him and different senators on the “daunting challenges” the charity is going through in Gaza.
“The Israeli missile assault that killed seven WCK help employees is extra tragic proof that the best way the Netanyahu authorities is conducting this battle is very mistaken,” mentioned Welch.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen mentioned the employees have been making an attempt to feed ravenous individuals.
“The problem of getting help into Gaza is already overwhelming — help employees from @WCKitchen @UN & others should not face dying when distributing it. ENOUGH! My coronary heart goes out to @chefjoseandres and the @WCKitchen group,” in keeping with Van Hollen.
Andres mentioned he’s “heartbroken and grieving” for the households and pals of WCK members, and demanded Israel cease the “indiscriminate killing” and “cease proscribing humanitarian help, killing civilians and help employees, and utilizing meals as a weapon.”
– ‘Indiscriminate killing’
Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal mentioned the “newest horror inflicted” by Netanyahu’s airstrikes on Gaza killed “courageous souls” at WCK.
“One other strike additionally killed at the very least 15 Palestinians in Rafah, inclu 5 youngsters. We should cease US navy help used for indiscriminate killing,” mentioned Jayapal.
Congressman Jamaal Bowman despatched power to the family members of these killed, saying: “Humanitarian help employees and civilians ought to by no means be the goal of navy assaults.”
Individually, Congressman Jamie Raskin mentioned he was “devastated and shocked” by the killing of the help employees.
“The Israeli Protection Forces has mentioned it’s going to examine how this disaster occurred. The world, together with the USA of America, waits for an entire accounting and clarification,” mentioned Raskin.
The persevering with “insupportable loss” of 1000’s of harmless civilian lives in Gaza implies that the Netanyahu authorities is “forfeiting and squandering day-after-day its ethical standing and the help of the world which existed after the October 7 atrocities perpetrated by Hamas,” he added.
Israel has waged a lethal navy offensive on Gaza since an Oct. 7 cross-border assault by Hamas which killed lower than 1,200 individuals.
Greater than 32,800 Palestinians have since been killed and 75,300 injured amid mass destruction and shortages of requirements.
Israel has additionally imposed a crippling blockade on the Gaza Strip, leaving its inhabitants, notably residents of northern Gaza, on the verge of hunger.
Israel is accused of genocide on the Worldwide Court docket of Justice, which on Thursday requested Tel Aviv to do extra to forestall famine in Gaza.
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