‘It’s like a big family’ | Humanitarian worker from East Tennessee mourns death of 7 aid workers killed in Gaza [Video]

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Seven aid workers were killed in Gaza by Israeli airstrikes on Tuesday. They were from Britain, Australia and Poland. Another was a Canadian American dual citizen, and another was Palestinian. All of them worked to deliver vital resources to a starving Gaza, and an East Tennessee man said he knew them while working to help communities across the world.

Joe Hurston is the founder of Air Mobile Ministries, flying across the world and delivering water purifiers to areas in crisis. He said he first met the workers in Ukraine while helping thousands of refugees fleeing the war there. They worked with the World Central Kitchen, an organization that feeds communities struck by disaster and tragedy.

“We were right at the border crossing, and I first smelled World Central Kitchen, and I ate food there and began to …