The World Central Kitchen charitable organization announced the cessation of its work in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, due to the ongoing Israeli attacks in the governorate.
The non-governmental organization is based in the United States and provides meals to the displaced in Gaza.
“In the face of Israeli operations in Rafah, countless families are forced to flee again,” she said late Tuesday.
She added, “The continuing Israeli attacks forced us to stop work in our main kitchen in Rafah, and to move many of our local kitchens to areas further north.”
The charitable organization recently resumed its work after stopping it following the killing of 7 of its workers in 3 Israeli air strikes on their cars last April.
The killing of the workers – an Australian, three Britons, an American, a Palestinian and a Polish – sparked global outrage against Israel.
An internal Israeli military investigation claimed that the drone team committed “operational miscalculation” after spotting a suspected Hamas gunman shooting from the top of an aid truck.
On Sunday, Israel killed 45 Palestinians and injured dozens, most of them children and women, with an air strike it launched on the tents of displaced people in the Tal al-Sultan area, northwest of Rafah, even though it was among the areas that its army claimed were “safe and possible to move to.”
The Israeli occupation army continues its military operation on the city of Rafah, which it began on May 6, ignoring regional and international warnings about the repercussions of this, in light of the presence of about 1.4 million displaced people in the city, which it pushed there under the claim that it was “safe.”
International relief agencies say that delivering aid to Gaza has become more difficult after the attack on Rafah.
The representative of the World Health Organization in the Palestinian Territories, Rick Pepperkorn, said on Tuesday, “Even if medical and other aid is delivered to Gaza, the task of transporting and delivering goods in the south and north remains very difficult.”
