MADRID Dec. 3 (EUROPA PRESS) –
This Tuesday, the United States Government showed outrage over the death of humanitarian workers from the NGOs Save the Children and World Central Kitchen (WCK) in the Gaza Strip following an Israeli attack on the Palestinian enclave and has urged the authorities to investigate. this incident.
“Our view is and has always been that humanitarian workers must be protected so they can safely deliver aid, whether in Gaza or anywhere in the world,” said State Department deputy spokesman Vedant Patel.
In this sense, he has urged the Israeli authorities to provide “additional information about this incident.” “We urge Israel to thoroughly and transparently investigate actions such as these and take appropriate measures,” he added.
At least five people died on Saturday after an Israeli attack in Khan Yunis in which there were workers from the NGO World Central Kitchen – run by Spanish chef José Andrés -, which announced shortly after that it was suspending its operations in Gaza.
Save the Children said in a statement that one of its workers, Ahmad Faisal Islim al Qadi, had died in the attack. “There are no words strong enough to express the pain and outrage we feel at the loss of Ahmad in an Israeli airstrike,” he said.
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