The victims also included a Briton, a Palestinian, an Australian and an Irishman. They were employees of World Central Kitchen, which provides food to displaced Palestinians.
The bodies of the dead are scheduled to be transferred to Al-Aqsa Hospital in the city of Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. Volunteers' passports were found.
Health officials in the Gaza Strip said that an Israeli air strike killed volunteers in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip after they were delivering food in the north.
Mahmoud Thabet, a Palestinian Red Crescent paramedic who was part of the team that transported the victims' bodies to the hospital, told the Associated Press that the workers' car was hit by an Israeli airstrike shortly after crossing the border into northern Gaza after delivering aid. .
“The Israeli army is conducting a comprehensive analysis at the highest levels to understand the circumstances of this tragic incident,” Sky News reported, citing the Israeli army.
“The Israeli army is making intensive efforts to enable the safe delivery of humanitarian aid,” the statement said. The IDF added that it is working closely with the World Central Kitchen “in their critical efforts to provide food and humanitarian aid to the people of the Gaza Strip.”
“We are aware of reports that members of the World Central Kitchen team were killed in an IDF attack while working to support our humanitarian efforts to deliver food to the Gaza Strip. This is a tragedy. Aid workers and civilians should never be targeted. Aid workers and civilians should never be targeted.” . – We read in a statement by the American charitable organization.
