President Joe Biden said he is “outraged and heartbroken” after an Israeli airstrike reportedly killed seven World Central Kitchen humanitarian workers in Gaza early Tuesday morning. In a statement made Tuesday, Biden hailed the workers as “brave and selfless” and called their deaths “a tragedy.”
The president continued, stating that Israel “has pledged to conduct a thorough investigation into why the aid workers’ vehicles were hit by airstrikes.” The workers were reportedly traveling in a “deconflicted zone” in two armored cars branded with the WCK logo and a soft skin vehicle when they were struck, WCK explained in a separate statement. The workers were from Australia, Poland, United Kingdom, a dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada, and Palestine.
