Celebrity chef Jose Andres told Reuters in an emotional interview on Wednesday that an Israeli attack that killed seven of his food aid workers in Gaza had targeted them “systematically, car by car.”
Speaking via video, Andres said the World Central Kitchen (WCK) charity group he founded had clear communication with the Israeli military, which he said knew his aid workers’ movements. “This was not just a bad luck situation where ‘oops’ we dropped the bomb in the wrong place,” Andres said.
Andres said the IDF was aware of the convoy’s whereabouts, opens new tab. He called for investigations of the incident by the US government and by the home country of every aid worker that was killed. “They were targeting us in a deconflicting zone, in an area controlled by IDF. They knowing that it was our teams moving on that road… with three cars,” he said.