An Israeli airstrike on a car in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday killed five people, a senior Palestinian health official said. Three of them were reported to be employees of World Central Kitchen.
The U.S.-based charity said it’s pausing operations in the territory as it tries to get more information.
Its aid delivery efforts in the war-ravaged territory were previously suspended last April after an Israeli strike killed seven of its workers, most of them foreigners.
“We are heartbroken to share that a vehicle carrying World Central Kitchen colleagues was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza,” the charity said in its statement issued Saturday.
The Israeli military said it struck a wanted militant who had been involved in the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, that sparked the war.
In a later statement, it said that the alleged attacker had worked with WCK and it …