Poland asks Israel for “urgent explanations” over the killing of aid workers in Gaza

WARSAW, Tuesday, April 02, 2024 (WAFA) – Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said Tuesday he had asked the Israeli ambassador in Warsaw for “urgent explanations” after an Israeli airstrike that resulted in the killing of seven aid workers from World Central Kitchen in the Gaza Strip.

A Polish volunteer was among the seven aid workers who were killed in the targeted strike, added Sikorski.
“I personally asked the Israeli ambassador Yacov Livne for urgent explanations,” Sikorski wrote on social media platform X.

“He assured me that Poland would soon receive the results of the investigation into this tragedy. I join in my condolences to the family of our volunteer and all civilian victims in the Gaza Strip.” Sikorski said Poland would open its own inquiry into the aid worker’s death.

US-based aid group World Central Kitchen confirmed in a press statement that seven of its team members were killed in a targeted attack by the Israeli military tanks and warplanes.

The organization called on Israel to stop “this indiscriminate killing” in Gaza.

It further stressed that among the victims were citizens “from Australia, Poland, the United Kingdom, a citizen holding dual American and Canadian citizenship, and a Palestinian.”

Since the start of the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip on October 7, the organization has actively participated in relief operations, involving in distributing food meals to civilians in the Strip.

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