The Spanish chef and founder of the NGO attacked in Gaza has written an opinion article in the newspaper ‘The New York Times’ in which he calls the Hebrew government to account and demands that it ‘stop killing civilians and humanitarian workers’ and that ‘the long road to peace begins today.”
The Spanish chef José AndrésThe founder of the NGO World Central Kitchen, whose convoy was attacked by Israel on Monday, killing all seven humanitarian workers traveling in it, has sharply criticized the Hebrew government.
In an opinion article published in the newspaper The New York Times under the title ‘Let people eat’, the chef has assured that ‘you cannot save the hostages by bombing all the buildings in Gaza. You can’t win this war starve an entire population“.
“It is time for the best of Israel to emerge,” he added, insisting that Tel Aviv “must open more land routes for food and medicine” and “stop killing civilians and humanitarian workers.” “The long road to peace must begin today,” he asserts.
According to WCK’s founder, the attack was ‘the direct result of a policy that humanitarian aid has been reduced to desperate levels” and that for this reason “the team members have put their lives in danger, precisely because this food aid is very scarce and desperately needed.”
José Andrés says that half of Gaza’s population (1.1 million people) faces the looming risk of famine and that “the team would not have made the trip if there was enough food, which would travel overland by truck , to feed the people of Gaza.”
Regarding the Israeli-initiated investigation, the chef says that “it has to start from the top, not just from the bottom up,” affirming that it is “a direct attack on clearly marked vehicles whose movements were known to the Israeli forces.”
Finally, in his article Andrés praises the figure of the seven dead: “They were the best of humanity. They are neither faceless nor nameless. They are not generic humanitarian aid workers or collateral damage in the war.”
According to the NGO, the seven humanitarian aid workers are the Palestinian Saifeddin Issam Ayad Abutaha, the Australian Lalzawmi Frankcom, the Pole Damian Soból, the Canadian-American Jacob Flickinger and the British John Chapman, James Henderson and James Kirby, ‘who risk everything ‘. for the most fundamental human activity: sharing our food with others.
Source: EITB
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