José Andrés claims Israel attacked aid workers 'car by car'

Chef José Andrés on Wednesday suggested that Israel methodically targeted aid workers in Gaza working for a charity group he founded after an Israeli airstrike killed seven people, including several workers with World Central Kitchen.

Israel has acknowledged that the strike took out the workers, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stating that "[u]nfortunately over the last day there was a tragic incident of an unintended strike of our forces on innocent people in the Gaza Strip."

But the celebrity chef has cast doubt on Israeli claims of an accident. Speaking to Reuters, Andrés said that Israel had attacked his workers "systematically, car by car."

"This was not just a bad luck situation where 'oops' we dropped the bomb in the wrong place," he added. "This was over a 1.5, 1.8 kilometers, with a very defined humanitarian convoy that had signs in the top, in the roof, a very colorful logo that we are obviously very proud of."

It's "very clear who we are and what we do," he added. "They were targeting us in a deconflicting zone, in an area controlled by IDF. They knowing that it was our teams moving on that road."

The Monday strike took out WCK workers Lalzawmi Frankcom, 43, Saifeddin Issam Ayad Abutaha, 25, Damian Soból, 35, and Jacob Flickinger, 33. Three British members of a security team also died in the attack. Those victims were identified as John Chapman, 57, James Henderson, 33, and James Kirby, 47.

WCK paused its relief efforts in the wake of the strike.

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