Israel targeted foreign aid workers so Palestinians could starve quietly, UN rapporteur says

Israel deliberately killed the World Central Kitchen (WCK) staff in Gaza so Palestinians could be starved quietly, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, said on Tuesday.

Knowing how Israel operates,my assessment is that Israeli forces intentionally killed #WCK workers so that donors would pull out & civilians in Gaza could continue to be starved quietly.Israel knows Western countries & most Arab countries won't move a finger for the Palestinians. https://t.co/lwdjzRJNyT

— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) April 2, 2024

In a post on X Albanese said: “Knowing how Israel operates, my assessment is that Israeli forces intentionally killed #WCK

workers so that donors would pull out & civilians in Gaza could continue to be starved quietly.”

“Israel knows Western countries & most Arab countries won’t move a finger for the Palestinians,” she added.

On Tuesday WCK and American Near East Refugee Aid (Anera) announced the suspension of their humanitarian aid operations in Gaza, expressing “shock” at the killing of seven aid workers, six of them foreign nationals, in Israeli air strikes “despite coordination with the Israeli army.”

WCK founder, Chef Jose Andres, said yesterday that the aid workers had been targeted by Israeli occupation forces, “systematically, car by car.”

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