Jos Andrs, the renowned chef who founded World Central Kitchen, condemned Israeli officials after troops killed seven of his charitys workers who were delivering food and supplies to starving Palestinians in Gaza leading the aid group to pause its desperately needed work in the region.

On Monday evening, Andrs confirmed that WCK lost several of our sisters and brothers in the Israeli attack hours earlier. The workers were traveling in a convoy of three cars two of which were armored vehicles branded with the charitys logo on their roofs so Israeli forces would know not to attack them. WCK also said the convoy was driving in a so-called deconflicted zone, and that it had been coordinating movements with the Israeli military.

Despite those safety measures, Israeli troops bombed the convoy as it was leaving the Deir al-Balah warehouse, where WCK workers had just delivered more than 100 tons of humanitarian food aid that arrived in Gaza via sea route. According to some reports and geolocation of the area , Israel launched three strikes on the cars in succession.

I am heartbroken and grieving for their families and friends and our whole WCK family, Andrs wrote of the victims on X, formerly Twitter . These are people...angels...I served alongside in Ukraine, Gaza, Turkey, Morocco, Bahamas, Indonesia. They are not faceless...they are not nameless.