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José Andrés, founder of World Central Kitchen, during a visit to the organization’s central kitchen in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, August 15, 2025. (World Central Kitchen)
August 20, 2025, 10:03 pm
After seeing misery up close, the man feeding Gaza says there’s no doubt Strip is starving
Meeting ex-hostages and visiting Deir al-Balah, WCK founder José Andrés has sympathy for both sides, maintaining good ties with COGAT as he aims for 1 million meals a day
By Nurit Yohanan
Women mourn during the funeral of victims allegedly killed the previous day by Israeli strikes, at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 20, 2025. (AFP)
July 20, 2025, 7:48 pm
Hamas officials say at least 85 Gazans killed, most near aid site; IDF: Toll exaggerated
Army confirms firing ‘warning shots’ near UN aid convoy, as GHF denies involvement; Israeli strikes kill 2 commanders of Hamas-linked terror group involved in Oct. 7 hostage-taking
By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan and Agencies
World Central Kitchen (WCK) offers food and water to first responders and Israelis impacted by Iranian attacks in June 2025. (Courtesy of Ruthie Rousso)
June 23, 2025, 8:53 pm
As Iran war heats up, World Central Kitchen gets cooking to feed battered Israelis
Year after IDF killed 7 of its workers in erroneous fire on Gaza convoy, aid group provides food to first responders, thousands displaced by missile strikes; also working in Strip
By Rossella Tercatin
Palestinians living around their tents in the Al-Mawasi area in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, May 7, 2025.(Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
May 8, 2025, 3:04 pm
Leading agency shuts its Gaza soup kitchens amid continued Israeli aid ban
US-based World Central Kitchen, which was serving 133,000 meals a day and baking 80,000 loaves of bread, says Israel’s blockade of Strip means there is no food left
By AP and ToI Staff
Palestinians walk past debris of buildings destroyed during the Israel-Hamas war, in Gaza City on March 28, 2025. (Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP)
March 29, 2025, 1:17 am
IDF says it hit dozens of terror sites in Gaza as UN agency pans ‘disregard for life’
At least 41 dead in past day, according to Hamas health ministry; after World Central Kitchen says volunteer killed in airstrike, military vows to probe incident
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Former US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative, on Sept. 24, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
January 4, 2025, 2:58 pm
Hillary Clinton, Soros, WCK’s Andres to be awarded US Presidential Medal of Freedom
Biden also to confer highest civilian honor on Denzel Washington, Lionel Messi, Michael J. Fox, Ralph Lauren, Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson, David Rubenstein, Bono
By AP and ToI Staff
File: A local volunteer of the World Central Kitchen carries a cooking pot to be used to cook meals for to needy Palestinians in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 3, 2024. (AFP)
December 11, 2024, 12:39 am
World Central Kitchen fires 62 Gazan workers accused by Israel of terror ties
Aid group says Israel did not share evidence of claims, insists move taken ‘to protect our team and our operations’ and that it should not be seen as an indictment of those fired
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Staff Sgt. Zamir Burke (Israel Defense Forces)
November 30, 2024, 11:51 pm
IDF says soldier killed in fighting in northern Gaza on Friday
IAF strikes rocket launcher in humanitarian zone; World Central Kitchen halts activities in enclave after employees killed, with one revealed to have participated in Oct. 7 attacks
By Emanuel Fabian and Reuters
People check a car hit by an Israeli strike in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on November 30, 2024, in which five people were reported killed. (Bashar Taleb/AFP)
November 30, 2024, 7:18 pm
IDF says it killed Oct. 7 terrorist employed by aid group; 4 others said killed as well
Ahed Qadih, who worked for World Central Kitchen, participated in Nir Oz massacre; army doesn’t comment on two other aid workers said to be among the dead
By Emanuel Fabian
A community space and kitchen in the Zomi displaced people's camp in the Gaza Strip has been named for the Canadian-born Israeli peace campaigner Vivian Silver, who was murdered by Hamas terrorists in her home in Kibbutz Be'eri, close to the Gaza border, on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy, Damour for Community Development)
August 8, 2024, 2:10 pm
Israeli peace activist murdered by Hamas is memorialized in Gaza evacuee camp
Sign with Vivian Silver’s name and photo graces community facility in humanitarian zone in south Gaza
By Sue Surkes
IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip in a picture released for publication on August 8, 2024 (Israel Defense Forces)
August 8, 2024, 12:32 pm
IDF: Top Hamas operative who directed West Bank terror killed in recent Gaza strike
Military says Nael Sakhel targeted on July 24; IDF targets northern Gaza rocket launch site used in recent attack on southern Israel, denies involvement in aid worker’s death
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
People gather around the car used by US-based aid group World Central Kitchen, that was hit by an Israeli strike the previous day in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on April 2, 2024. (AFP)
August 5, 2024, 8:42 am
Israel says Australian probe into Gaza aid worker deaths ‘omitted crucial details’
Embassy cites ‘some misrepresentations’; investigation found April strike that killed 7 in World Central Kitchen aid convoy was due to operational errors, ‘mistaken identification’
By AFP
IDF troops seen operating in the Gaza Strip in this handout photo published on August 2, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
August 3, 2024, 2:04 am
At least 19 rockets fired at Israel from southern Gaza, the largest barrage in weeks
Salvoes set off sirens in communities near border and around Kiryat Malachi, some 65 km from Strip; IDF confirms killing deputy head of Islamic Jihad arms manufacturing unit
By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies
World Central Kitchen staff distribute food boxes to Palestinians in Gaza amid the ongoing conflict and severe humanitarian situation in the territory.(Courtesy World Central Kitchen/WCK.org)
June 4, 2024, 9:56 pm
Aid trucks entering Gaza ‘at fairly good clip,’ says World Central Kitchen
Humanitarian group says it is getting food aid to its kitchens from Kerem Shalom to Khan Younis and Deir al Balah, but insists distribution and humanitarian situation still dire
By Jeremy Sharon
Illustrative: Aid from World Central Kitchen boat off the coast of Gaza on March 15, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
April 28, 2024, 10:13 pm
World Central Kitchen to resume operations in Gaza after deadly strike on aid convoy
Organization reiterates call for international investigation into April 1 attack that killed 7 of its workers; IDF says aid deliveries to scale up even more in the coming days
By Lazar Berman and Emanuel Fabian
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