Peter RileyWithin hours of the killings, #WCK / #WorldCentralKitchen announced it was suspending operations in #Gaza and their ship sailing toward Gaza with aid shipments would return to #Cyprus.
WCF’s announcement was swiftly followed by #ANERA, which runs the second largest humanitarian operation in Gaza after #UNRWA, suspending its work too.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/05/incident-at-deir-al-balah/
WCF’s announcement was swiftly followed by #ANERA, which runs the second largest humanitarian operation in Gaza after #UNRWA, suspending its work too.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/05/incident-at-deir-al-balah/
Incident on the Al-Rashid Coastal Road
The darkly ironic thing is that World Central Kitchens was supposed to serve as Biden’s replacement for UNRWA, a private relief effort under the control of the US, instead of the UN. Some Palestinians had even come to view Andrés as a US agent, his group a kind of Blackwater in humanitarian garb. And the Israelis just blew it up: one, two, three. Because any sustained aid to the Palestinians subverts their goal of using starvation to force them to either die or leave Gaza. The arrogance would stun anyone but the benumbed Biden.
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