Chef José Andrés said on Wednesday that he does not believe that the bombing deaths of seven World Central Kitchen volunteers, including their security team, in Gaza on Monday were an accident.
“They were targeting us in a de-conflicted zone, in an area controlled by IDF. They [knew] that it was our teams moving on that road … with three cars,” Andrés told Reuters. He believes that his team was targeted “systematically, car by car.”
“This was not just a bad luck situation where ‘oops’ we dropped the bomb in the wrong place,” Andrés insisted, saying that the charity group had clearly communicated their location to the Israeli military as they traveled in two armored cars and another vehicle.