{"id":425812,"date":"2024-04-02T13:09:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T10:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=425812"},"modified":"2024-04-02T13:09:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T10:09:24","slug":"world-central-kitchen-charity-halts-gaza-operations-after-apparent-israeli-strike-kills-7-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/world-central-kitchen-charity-halts-gaza-operations-after-apparent-israeli-strike-kills-7-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"World Central Kitchen charity halts Gaza operations after apparent Israeli strike kills 7 workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (SONNA) \u2014 An apparent Israeli airstrike killed six international aid workers with the World Central Kitchen and their Palestinian driver, the charity said Tuesday, in a potentially major setback to efforts to deliver aid by sea to Gaza, where <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">Israel\u2019s offensive against Hamas<\/span> has pushed hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to the <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">brink of starvation<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The food charity, founded by celebrity chef Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s, said it was immediately suspending operations in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The source of fire late Monday could not be independently confirmed. The Israeli military expressed \u201csincere sorrow\u201d over the deaths while stopping short of accepting responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the top military spokesman, said that officials are reviewing the incident at the highest levels. He says an independent investigation will be launched that \u201cwill help us reduce the risk of such an event from occurring again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Source: AP<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (SONNA) \u2014 An apparent Israeli airstrike killed six international aid workers with the World Central Kitchen and their Palestinian driver, the charity said Tuesday, in a potentially major setback to efforts to deliver aid by sea to Gaza, where Israel\u2019s offensive against Hamas has pushed hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":425813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-425812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425814,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425812\/revisions\/425814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}