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Seven of my colleagues were killed in Gaza. There and in Ukraine, aid workers are no longer safe | José Andrés

It now seems the 2024 attack on World Central Kitchen workers was a deliberate IDF tactic. The protections of the Geneva conventions have become paper thin José Andrés is the founder of the food aid charity World Central Kitchen In times of war, the hard and vital work of supplying food, water and medicine has been protected by international agreements for almost 80 years . Yet those protections have been systematically and repeatedly ignored in the two most bloody wars of recent years: Ukraine and Gaza. Russia has attacked healthcare targets in Ukraine more than 3,200 times since the full-scale invasion in February 2022, according to the World Health Organization : about twice a day on average. That includes many “double-tap” attacks on the same target in quick succession, which are especially lethal for first responders. José Andrés is the founder of the food aid charity World Central

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It now seems the 2024 attack on World Central Kitchen workers was a deliberate IDF tactic. The protections of the Geneva conventions have become paper thin José Andrés is the founder of the food aid charity World Central Kitchen In times of war, the hard and vital work of supplying food, water and medicine has been protected by international agreements for almost 80 years . Yet those protections have been systematically and repeatedly ignored in the two most bloody wars of recent years: Ukraine and Gaza. Russia has attacked healthcare targets in Ukraine more than 3,200 times since the full-scale invasion in February 2022, according to the World Health Organization : about twice a day on average. That includes many “double-tap” attacks on the same target in quick succession, which are especially lethal for first responders. José Andrés is the founder of the food aid charity World Central

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According to The Guardian’s source item, Seven of my colleagues were killed in Gaza. There and in Ukraine, aid workers are no longer safe | José Andrés, It now seems the 2024 attack on World Central Kitchen workers was a deliberate IDF tactic. The protections of the Geneva conventions have become paper thin José Andrés is the founder of the food aid charity World Central Kitchen In times of war, the hard and vital work of supplying food, water and medicine has been protected by international agreements for almost 80 years . Yet those protections have been systematically and repeatedly ignored in the two most bloody wars of recent years: Ukraine and Gaza. Russia has attacked healthcare targets in Ukraine more than 3,200 times since the full-scale invasion in February 2022, according to the World Health Organization : about twice a day on average. That includes many “double-tap” attacks on the same target in quick succession, which are especially lethal for first responders. José Andrés is the founder of the food aid charity World Central

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