The CIA’s World Central Kitchen Gaza Genocide Humanitarianwashing Operation — and Ziofascist Israel’s Lethal Attack on It

Gregor Flock
34 min readApr 24, 2024

An article in four sections: 1. The José Andrés-Rob Wilder World Central Kitchen (WCK) CIA Front (1.1 CIA Red Flags in José Andrés’ Biography; 1.2 Rob Wilder’s Biography; 1.3 NYPlaid’s March 16, 2024 Article; 1.4 NYPlaid’s March 24, 2024 Article; 1.5 The CIA’s Michael “Mick” Patrick Mulroy and the Lobo Institute; 1.6 More On Fogbow, Carl “Sam” Mundy, Michael Makovsky and JINSA; 1.7 The Grayzone’s March 27, 2024 Article); 2. April 1–2: Ziofascist Israel Drone-Murders Seven WCK Employees (2.1 The Seven Victims; 2.2 Not a mistake, accident or unintentional; 2.3 Ziofascist Israel and the IDF ‘investigate’ themselves; 2.4 Support for an absurd Ziofascist Israeli self-‘investigation’ from the US and UK); 3. Reactions from April 3 to 10; 4. More Questions.

The USA and Israel have begun to build a Gaza sea port for allegedly humanitarian purposes, but the port in all probability has entirely different and decidedly non-humanitarian purposes such as partitioning Gaza:

https://twitter.com/karaokecomputer/status/1768973891542872149

After all, if the USA and Israel were actually interested in bringing aid into Gaza, all they would need to do is to allow aid in properly through the southern border crossings of Rafah and Kerem Shalom. The actual reasons for building that temporary sea port are consequently different ones such as ‘humanitarianwashing’ the Gaza Genocide.

1. The José Andrés-Rob Wilder World Central Kitchen CIA Front

For that purpose, they brought in José Andrés World Central Kitchen, a most likely CIA front with links to the very well-known CIA front USAID, the US Department of State and all sorts of Western elite entities — links that can essentially only be explained via an intelligence connection and the WCK being a CIA front:

https://twitter.com/NYplaid/status/1770505247368056951
March 21, 2024; https://twitter.com/NYplaid/status/1770697154392428992
https://twitter.com/NYplaid/status/1770703316307136707/photo/1

1.1 CIA Red Flags in José Andrés’ Biography

From chef and restaurateur José Andrés, the Spanish-US American chef behind the US ‘sea aid’ route-glorifying propaganda operation World Central Kitchen (2010-present) who conspicuously flies both the US and the Ukrainian flag on his Twitter/X profile and who agitated against Spain’s perhaps most important pro-Palestinian voice on October 16, 2023:

https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1769790365714788682
https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1769792451386974267
https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1769793394287526104

Andrés’ Wikipedia biography shows connections to US elite circles and universities of which especially Georgetown University in Washington D.C. is known to be CIA-affiliated, whereas Harvard University is the most infamous Zionist and Ziofascist university that was also haunted by the convicted sex offender, human trafficker and most likely Israeli intelligence asset and blackmailer Jeffrey Epstein:

José Ramón Andrés Puerta (Spanish pronunciation: [xoˈse raˈmon anˈdɾes ˈpweɾta]; born 13 July 1969) is a Spanish-American chef and restaurateur. He owns restaurants in several cities around the United States, and has won a number of awards, both for his cooking (including several James Beard Awards), and for his humanitarian work. He is a professor and the founder of the Global Food Institute at George Washington University.

Andrés is the founder of World Central Kitchen (WCK), a non-profit devoted to providing meals in the wake of natural disasters. A Spanish-born and raised cook, he is often credited with bringing the small plates dining concept to America. He was awarded a 2015 National Humanities Medal at a 2016 White House ceremony for his work with World Central Kitchen. In addition, he has received honorary doctorates from Georgetown University, George Washington University, Harvard University, and Tufts University. In March, 2022 he was named as co-chair of the United States President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition.

[…]

He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in December 2013.

Like USAID, the World Food Kitchen’s humanitarian mantle provides a cover for US intelligence work in politically sensitive areas:

In response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Andrés formed World Central Kitchen, which provides healthy food to families and individuals touched by disasters. Since it was founded, the NGO has organized meals in the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Zambia, Peru, Cuba, Uganda, Cambodia, and in Poland on the border of Ukraine. It has provided aid and meals in the United States and Puerto Rico and has helped during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.

During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, José Andrés announced that he was going to donate a part of $100-million Courage and Civility Award given to him by Jeff Bezos to address the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine.

When you furthermore have certain background information on Barack Obama and Bethesda, Maryland, the following information settles it that José Andrés is in all probability a CIA asset, with the usual question being whether he is a witting or perhaps just an unwitting asset:

In 2015, Andrés was appointed by President Barack Obama as an ambassador for citizenship and naturalization.

[…]

[from a list of Andrés-affiliated restaurants:] Spanish DinerBethesda, Maryland (spin-off of location inside of NYC’s Mercado Little Spain) — A Spanish take on the classic American diner.

[…]

Andrés is married to Patricia “Tichi” Fernández de la Cruz and has three daughters; they live in Bethesda, Maryland, United States.

1.2 Rob Wilder’s Biography

Rob Wilder’s biography (Chairman & Co-Founder at the World Central Kitchen) is a lot less conspicuous. From The Org:

Rob Wilder, along with chef José Andrés, is the Co-Founder of ThinkFoodGroup (TFG), the innovative management company that has grown over 27 years into a global leader in food and hospitality. TFG is responsible for more than 30 restaurants in DC, New York, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, Orlando, and The Bahamas. Rob was twice named Restaurateur of the Year by the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington, and, with Andrés, received the Richard Melman Award for Innovation by Restaurant Hospitality. Rob also co-founded World Central Kitchen with José in 2010 after deciding together that no existing Food NGO was solving problems as they would as Chef and Entrepreneur.

In 2015 Rob also founded FoodTech Angels to fund and support innovative early-stage companies that leverage technology to change the world of food. Rob has also been an advisor and mentor to several early-stage tech and food companies at Halcyon Incubator, TechStars, FTW Ventures & Yale Entrepreneurial Institute.

An honors graduate of Yale University, Rob began his career in the restaurant industry more than 35 years ago when he co-founded Amy’s Ice Creams in Austin, Texas, and then the Austin Grills in Washington. In 1993, he hired a young José Andrés to helm his new Spanish restaurant, Jaleo, which began the 27-year collaboration which is now ThinkFoodGroup.

Rob is a member of YPO/WPO and has served as Chapter Chair of the US Capital Chapter. He serves as Trustee & Finance Chair at Shakespeare Theater Company and Director of the Duane Wilder Foundation.

https://theorg.com/org/world-central-kitchen

Since Rob Wilder hired José Andrés and since there are plenty of CIA red flags throughout Andrés’s bio, there is the possibility that Rob Wilder may also be CIA.

There is not much evidence for that in his bio though: At the mentioned Halcyon Incubator one can for instance find a link to CIA-affiliated Georgetown — a district in Washington — as well as to an also Washington-based “S&R Foundation” that is run a by the bioengineering-studied Japanese ‘philanthropist’ Sachiko Kuno who is well-connected to US-elite circles:

https://www.halcyonhouse.org/about/history/
https://www.stimson.org/ppl/sachiko-kuno/

Dr. Kuno founded S&R Foundation in Washington, D.C. in 2000, where she still serves as Chairman and CEO, and Halcyon Incubator in 2014 to support social entrepreneurs, creating societal change through innovative business development. She also co-founded WE Capital, a female-led investment fund in Washington, D.C. In Japan, she co-founded Phoenixi Co. Inc in 2018, which operates social incubator program in Kyoto. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for numerous organizations including Johns Hopkins Medicine, Tudor Place, and the Hoover Institute [at Stanford University]. She also serves as Executive Vice President for International Liaison and Fundraising at Kyoto University.

Dr. Kuno has received numerous awards over the years, including the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the Greater Washington Area in the Life Sciences Category (2007). recognition as one of the 25 “Women Who Mean Business” by The Washington Business Journal (2009), one of Forbes Magazine’s Top 50 America’s Richest Self-Made Women (2015) and the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women by Forbes Japan (2015). Dr. Kuno has been awarded Stateswoman of the Year 2016 by the Harvard Business School of Japan, received the AVON Awards to Women 2016, and was listed as one of Washingtonian’s 2017 Tech Titans.

Dr. Kuno is a graduate of Kyoto University and received her Ph.D. in bioengineering chemistry from Kyoto University.

So while some evidence for a CIA connection such as Georgetown are there, it is a lot thinner than in José Andrés biography.

1.3 NYPlaid’s March 16, 2024 Article

NYPlaid did the critical early research on the World Central Kitchen and José Andrés, so I will just bring his respective articles which speak for themselves:

https://twitter.com/NYplaid/status/1769061334996402178

1.4 NYPlaid’s March 24, 2024 Article

More on the US — Israeli #GazaDeathPort and the José Andrés World Central Kitchen CIA propaganda op from NYplaid:

https://twitter.com/WCKitchen/status/1714417694605242595
https://twitter.com/Abemamtinman12/status/1714441965377331363; https://twitter.com/shammaalama/status/1714672129407680593; https://twitter.com/Shesjuly/status/1714663580157587850; https://twitter.com/ovlomoz/status/1714447930499674358; https://twitter.com/ChichounK/status/1714644237675831607
https://twitter.com/NYplaid/status/1770148669725040817
https://twitter.com/MiddleEastEye/status/1770705555398832425
https://twitter.com/NYplaid/status/1770505247368056951
https://twitter.com/NYplaid/status/1770818238605074901
https://twitter.com/KelleyBVlahos/status/1767879529974960379; https://responsiblestatecraft.org/pier-gaza-military/
https://twitter.com/LFCNewsMedia/status/1767972967990866360

Michael Mulroy: “We of course put additions on the weapons systems we provide them not being used into Gaza… I mean — excuse me, I say Gaza a lot into Russia. But this is, ah, this is not a, ah, precluded activity, and quite frankly the Ukrainians cannot make Russia a safe zone for Russians. They have to bring the fight to the enemy, they need to do something to turn this, this tide turn around, if you will, and I think this is just part of a much larger plan to do that.”

1.5 The CIA’s Michael “Mick” Patrick Mulroy and the Lobo Institute

Michael Mulroy is also a ‘former’ CIA officer who just so happens to also work in US mainstream media as a ‘national security analyist’ (i.e. CIA propagandist):

https://twitter.com/LFCNewsMedia/status/1767972967990866360; https://www.loboinstitute.org/experts/

The Lobo Institute, which currently no longer lists Mulroy among its experts, is also full with other ‘former’ CIA personell, including this other “career CIA Paramilitary Operations Officer” here whose work—true to US style — most likely involved murdering people in “Latin America,” “Afghanistan” or “Iraq”:

https://www.loboinstitute.org/experts/

The Lobo Institute’s official partners from the US empire:

https://twitter.com/LFCNewsMedia/status/1768308474096599087/photo/1

One day after having accessed the CIA-affiliate Lobo Institute’s homepage and on April 24, 2024, it now requires me to enter a password to access it:

https://www.loboinstitute.org/experts/
https://twitter.com/LFCNewsMedia/status/1768044869933510979; https://www.linkedin.com/posts/benconnable_the-yemen-steering-initiative-ysi-activity-7160003603837931520-H2nc

Not very surprisingly, the ‘former’ CIA officer Mick Mulroy also reposts Ziofascist propaganda from the known Ziofascist and Poland-based propaganda outlet Visegrád 24:

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1782515647164846245

1.6 More On Fogbow, Carl “Sam” Mundy, Michael Makovsky and JINSA

https://twitter.com/LFCNewsMedia/status/1767964437321814171; https://jinsa.org/jinsa_program/general-admirals-trip-israel/; https://fogbow.ch; https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/09/05/israel-gcc-uae-gulf-arab-states-iran-rapid-response-force-military-defense-nato-security/

JINSA — the Jewish[!] Institute for National Security of America[!] — is of course a hilariously absurd contradiction in itself, because what it actually is is the ‘Zionist Institute for National Security of Israel (ZINSI).’ And JINSA’s/ZINSI’s Generals and Admirals (G&A) program in turn is where old and high-ranking US military personell goes to be propagandized and to wittingly or unwittingly sell out the USA to Ziofascist Israel.

From the JINSA/ZINSI G&A homepage section:

Generals and Admirals Program to Israel

JINSA’s Generals and Admirals (G&A) Program was created in 1981 to educate [i.e. hasbara propandize] recently retired U.S. generals and admirals — representatives of the country’s most credible institution, the military — about Israel’s unique security challenges and the importance of a strong U.S.-Israel relationship for America’s national security. To date, more than 500 retired U.S. generals and admirals have participated on the G&A Program, including service chiefs and combatant commanders.

The cornerstone of the program is a trip to Israel, during which participants meet with top Israeli military, intelligence, and government leaders, including the Israeli Prime Minister, Israeli Minister of Defense, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff, and the Director of Mossad.

Participants also visit key strategic sites, including each of Israel’s borders, to learn about Israel’s defense capabilities and security challenges. Upon completion of the program, participants often engage on important policy initiatives through JINSA’s Gemunder Center for Defense and Strategy that strengthen U.S. [i.e. Ziofascist Israel’s!] national security and the U.S.-Israel security relationship.

Fogbow’s Carl “Sam” Mundy is indeed listed under the 2022 participants of the generals and admiral’s program, thereby establishing an intelligence link of Mundy to Israel:

https://jinsa.org/jinsa_program/general-admirals-trip-israel/

From this year and so far:

https://jinsa.org/jinsa_program/general-admirals-trip-israel/

To quote from the insane 4-minute JINSA/ZINSI hasbara propaganda video which is largely narrated by Michael Makovsky, the 2013 to present president and CEO of JINSA/ZINSI who, based on his activities, can be relatively safely assumed to be working for Israeli intelligence and the Ziofascist Israeli terrorist state:

https://jinsa.org/person/dr-michael-makovsky/

Michael Makovsky since 2013 has been President and CEO of the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA), a leading Washington, D.C.-based policy and educational organization focused on U.S. defense and national security issues in the Middle East.

Makovsky has worked extensively on U.S.-Israel defense ties, U.S. policy toward Iran, Syria, Iraq, Gaza, the Persian Gulf, and the role of energy in U.S. national security policy, and the Eastern Mediterranean,

Previously, Makovsky served as Foreign Policy Director for the Bipartisan Policy Center, special assistant in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, advising senior Defense, and an energy market analyst for various investment firms.

Makovsky has written articles, op-eds and editorials for various publications on U.S. national security issues primarily involving the Middle East as well as energy markets.

He is also author of Churchill’s Promised Land (Yale University Press), a diplomatic-intellectual history of Winston Churchill’s complex relationship with Zionism.

Makovsky has a Ph.D. in diplomatic history from Harvard University, an MBA in finance from Columbia Business School, and a B.A. in history from the University of Chicago.

Coincidentally, Makovsky got his PhD from the Ziofascist stronghold Harvard, and coincidentally, his publications tend to be Ziofascist propaganda drivel — a fact which partially explains why Netanyahu gave Makovsky a handshake:

To proceed to the 4-minute JINSA/ZINSI advertisement video:

Michael Makovsky: “One of the unique programs at JINSA is what we call the Generals and Admirals Program.”

David P. Steinmann: “It gives us the opportunity to bring some of our retired senior military people here who are able to explain to some of their counterparts the importance of Israel to our national security defense.”

Lt Gen Michael Gould: “It helps to be able to experience it firsthand and then share those stories.”

Maj Gen Jon A. Gallinetti: “The access was just phenomenal.”

RAdm Scott Sanders: “We talked to the prime minister of Israel. It just really showed me how much Israel and the United States are very similar” [true: they are both racist genocidal settler-colonialist terrorist states].

Michael Makovsky: “JINSA also takes retired US generals and admirals to other countries such as Jordan, Egypt, Greece, where we meet leaders in these countries to expand their and our knowledge of the region. The purpose is to further their education [i.e. indoctrination] about the region and to engage them subsequently in important policy work.”

Michael Makovsky: “JINSA also has a homeland security program where we take senior U.S. law enforcement officers from the FBI and chiefs of police from large US cities from across the country, and bring to Israel where they learn Israeli counterterrorism methods. [torture? excessive use of force? genocide?]

Steven L. Pomerantz: “Every year, we have taken senior American law enforcement officials to help them get a better understanding of how the Israelis, who are very, very experienced in counterterrorism, do that, and learn those lessons and bring them home.

Also Steven Pomerantz in 2020 after George Floyd was killed by a white US police officer with theIsraeli military technique of kneeling on his neck:

https://forward.com/opinion/449171/i-am-the-architect-of-us-israel-police-exchange-programs-dont-believe-the/

To continue with the JINSA/ZINSI video:

slurred and partially inaudible speech by, probably, Michael Makovsky: “A new education on this should be[?] that we have a JINSA US military leadership program who have been rising to senior US military officers to Israel all of whom are on the trajectory of becoming admirals and generals.”

Ziofascist neocon ghoul Eliott Abrams speaks to Ziofascist Israeli officers

Michael Makovsky: “The organisation for a long time has focussed about [sic!] educating [i.e. hasbara propagandizing] Americans about the Middle East. But it also dawned on us that it is important to educate the Middle East about America. We started bringing IDF, Israeli military, rising officers to the United States.”

Ziofascist Israeli Ambassador to the USA Ron Dermer: “This is a great program to bring young IDF officer to try to understand America beyond the military… [i.e. to spy on America wholesale]”

Ziofascist neocon ghoul Bill Kristol

Michael Makovsky: “…exposing them to American politics and politicians. It will help them as they rise in the ranks, and it helps Americans too. [err no, this only helps Ziofascist Israel]”

The video still goes on at this point; below some pictures of mostly political US sellouts to Ziofascist Israel who mainly agitate against Iran or also for Israel’s genocide of Palestinians:

VAdm John Bird: “The JCPOA [i.e. the Iran nuclear deal] will make the United States and its allies less secure and military confrontation with Iran and its proxies more likely.”

Mike Pompeo, former CIA director and notorious Israel asskisser: “Israel is everything we want the entire Middle East to look like.”

In other words: JINSA/ZINSI not only has a number of Ziofascist Israeli programs for a very well-rounded infiltration, co-optation and propagandization of high-ranking US military, police force and politicans. On top of that, JINSA/ZINSI also brings Ziofascist Israeli officers into the USA to probably also do some sort of spywork. Below a list of the officially stated JINSA/ZINSI programs:

https://jinsa.org/programs/

There is thus not only an additional CIA connection of the José Andrés-headed WCK through the CIA-affiliates Carl Mundy, Michael Mulroy (from the also CIA-affiliated Lobo Institute) and their foggy FogBow which was founded in the middle of Ziofascist Israel’s genocide of Palestinians.

On top of that and somewhat removed, there also appears to exist an Israeli intelligence connection through Carl Mundy having attended a program of the Michael Makovsky-headed and Israeli intelligence affiliated JINSA/ZINSI in 2022. One consequently also has to consider that Carl Mundy might not only be working for US but also for Israeli intelligence.

1.7 The Grayzone’s March 27, 2024 Article

Nothing to see here people, just WCK ‘philanthropist’ José Andrés drinking coffee with Samantha Power, the head of the most well-known CIA front USAID. To quote yet another article:

https://thegrayzone.com/2024/03/27/us-state-depts-chef-gaza-aid-rubble/

State Department-linked Spanish celebrity chef José Andrés has emerged as the US government’s preferred conduit for aid to enter Gaza, following the Biden administration’s decision to suspend funding to the enclave’s main supplier of food, aid and education, the UNRWA.

The operation appears designed to serve as a stopgap measure to provide minimal quantities of food to Gaza’s famine-stricken population until the US military finishes building a pier in the Mediterranean Sea, and a shadowy contractor run by former US Marines and CIA officials is able to implement an aid program called “Blue Beach Plan.”

Andrés’ organization, World Central Kitchen, has already finished constructing its own jetty, which was made from the rubble heaps in Gaza — a decision that virtually guaranteed the building materials contain the remains of humans killed by Israeli bombing.

https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1770523739412697427

The use of genocidal biomatter in the construction of the pier has been roundly ignored by legacy media outlets, whose fawning coverage of the plans has instead cast Andrés as a kind of maverick “superhero” fighting to protect Palestinian civilians in the face of international indifference.

In their rush to lionize the shady chef, the Washington Post falsely claimed, “The first ship bearing aid to Gaza since 2005… was spearheaded not by the United Nations or a world leader but by a celebrity chef, José Andrés.” In 2008, activists succeeded in using boats to deliver aid to Gaza six times before Israel began sinking the ships and killing members of their crew.

Strangely, these English-language outlets have generally neglected to mention that WCK is only able to operate in Gaza with the explicit permission of the Israeli military. The New York Times was an exception, noting in a glowing profile of Andrés’ group that “the Israeli military helped World Central Kitchen’s operation, providing security and coordination” and that “every step was carried out with permission from the Israeli military.”

“Nothing goes in without Israel’s permission,” Andrés himself conceded in an interview with NBC News. The chef claimed Israel’s COGAT unit which controls aid to the besieged enclave is “doing everything at its disposal to help the people of Gaza,” but that its “hands are tied” by the military operation.

Immediately before their recent pivot to Gaza, Andrés’ WCK spent several weeks providing meals to Israeli soldiers following Hamas’ October 7 attack.

[…]

Andrés serves not only as a semi-official emissary of the US government, but as a representative of one of its top client states. In September of 2023, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky personally welcomed Andrés to the country, describing the chef as an “ambassador” of Ukraine’s official aid collection agency, whose “strong voice helps us maintain global support.”

https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1702306535752245608

The chef’s intimate relationship with the US predates the current conflict in Ukraine. In 2020, he was honored at an event by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he was warmly introduced by now-CIA chief Bill Burns, who called it a “special pleasure” to bring Andrés onstage.

So in case José Andrés’ CIA connections should not have been clear, this should settle it for good.

March 29:

https://twitter.com/Hakeam_ps/status/1773775755102544137

April 24:

https://twitter.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1783101867905438095

State propagandist Pat Ryder: “There has been no physical construction of the pier or the causeway. We are positioned to begin construction very soon, in the very near future.”

April 27:

From a Zionist account:

https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1784307582221361441

From an anti-Zionist account:

https://twitter.com/Resist_05/status/1784708135196004620

2. April 1-2: Ziofascist Israel Drone-Murders Seven WCK Employees

A few days after the WCK was definitively identified as a CIA front by NYPlaid and others, including myself, and in a highly unexpected move, Ziofascist Israel drone-murdered seven WCK staff with a drone triple tap or strike on clearly identifiable and roof-marked WCK cars.

2.1 The Seven Victims

Some footage:

https://twitter.com/EyeonPalestine/status/1775023984775475452
https://twitter.com/EyeonPalestine/status/1774914056379363825
https://twitter.com/KufiyyaPS/status/1774915538340270342
https://twitter.com/KufiyyaPS/status/1774917462384869689
https://twitter.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1775115965753348429
https://twitter.com/EyeonPalestine/status/1774910016383803618
https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1774943626356809836
https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1774944755295674671; https://twitter.com/WCKitchen/status/1772265100138676498

After some initial uncertainty, it is established that Ziofascist Israeli killed seven WCK staff:

https://twitter.com/EyeonPalestine/status/1775057873497661752

From this Daily Mail article on the identies of the seven victims:

British victims John Chapman, 57, James ‘Jim’ Henderson, 33, and James Kirby, 47, were killed in the attack along with four other aid workers.

They were named as Australian Lalzawmi ‘Zomi’ Frankcom, Pole Damian Soból, Palestinian Saifeddin Issam Ayad Abutaha and US-Canada citizen Jacob Flickinger.

From this The Guardian article:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/very-best-of-humanity-the-seven-aid-workers-killed-in-israeli-airstrike

Note how, after already established US and Israeli intelligence ties of the WCK (see earlier), The Guardian article establishes ties to British ‘former’ special forces and possibly also intelligence:

James Kirby, 47, who was born in Bristol, was a military veteran working in the charity’s security team.

He worked for the security firm Solace Global, based in Poole, Dorset, and was a former sniper marksman and rifleman, according to his LinkedIn profile. Kirby described himself as someone who maintained “a calm demeanour under extreme pressure, including life-threatening situations”.

[…]

John Chapman, 57, who was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, was also working for Solace Global among the charity’s security team. He was reported to have been a former member of special forces.

[…]

James Henderson, 33, who was born in Truro, Cornwall, worked for Solace Global, also as part of the relief team’s security detail.

According to his LinkedIn page he served for six years in the Royal Marines before working for private security firms.

2.2 Not a mistake, accident or unintentional

Contrary to initial Ziofascist Israeli propaganda, their drone triple strike on the WCK staff and their resultant deaths were anything but a mistake, an accident or unintentional:

https://twitter.com/MuhammadSmiry/status/1775146282954215857; https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1775128774503223532
https://twitter.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1775137325636317569
https://twitter.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1775138145312375249; https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2024-04-02/ty-article/.premium/0000018e-9e1e-d764-adff-9edf9cd00000

As per their usual ‘Hamas is everywhere and everyone’ propaganda routine, alater excuse which the Ziofascist Israelis tried was to claim that they mistakenly thought an armed terrorist was accompanying the WCK staff, but that is not credible either:

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1775163939275346358
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1775164607406981391; https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-04-02/ty-article/.premium/idf-bombed-wck-aid-convoy-3-times-targeting-armed-hamas-member-who-wasnt-there/0000018e-9e75-d764-adff-9eff29360000
https://twitter.com/SaulStaniforth/status/1775533392940974153

2.3 Ziofascist Israel and the IDF ‘investigate’ themselves

In yet another transparent propaganda farce, the genocidal Ziofascist Israeli sociopaths claimed that they would ‘investigate’ the incident themselves. Observe Netanyahu’s liar’s smirk and smile of impunity while making that absurd claim:

https://twitter.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1775207527082254688
https://twitter.com/IsraeliPM/status/1775149585368863084
https://twitter.com/JonnyFX1/status/1775258176675565652; https://twitter.com/LarryBoorstein/status/1775324370748998013

In their amazing ‘investigation’ and completely inconsistent with the damage to the WCK car from above, the Ziofascist propagandists also briefly tried to claim that the WCK staff were killed by a Hamas “side bomb” before that lie collapsed too:

https://twitter.com/ecomarxi/status/1775070034106179673
https://twitter.com/MOSSADil/status/1774962429044076954
https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1775128774503223532; https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1775052658300076470

Satire and ridicule of ‘the most moral (i.e. insane and evil) army in the world’ ensued:

https://twitter.com/Shambles151/status/1775105812148420741

2.4 Support for an absurd Ziofascist Israeli self-‘investigation’ from the US and UK

Not very surprisingly, the Axis of Genocide settler-colonialist terrorist states and current and former world empires of USA and UK, which are both heavily infiltrated by Ziofascist Israel (see section 1 about JINSA or earlier articles about the USA or UK Ziofascist lobbies), initially supported a farcial self-‘investigation’ of the evident perpetrator of the WCK staff murders.

A lame statement from Genocide Joe:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/04/02/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-the-death-of-world-central-kitchen-workers-in-gaza/

I am outraged and heartbroken by the deaths of seven humanitarian workers from World Central Kitchen, including one American, in Gaza yesterday. They were providing food to hungry civilians in the middle of a war. They were brave and selfless. Their deaths are a tragedy.

Israel has pledged to conduct a thorough investigation into why the aid workers’ vehicles were hit by airstrikes. That investigation must be swift, it must bring accountability, and its findings must be made public.

Even more tragically, this is not a stand-alone incident. This conflict has been one of the worst in recent memory in terms of how many aid workers have been killed. This is a major reason why distributing humanitarian aid in Gaza has been so difficult — because Israel has not done enough to protect aid workers trying to deliver desperately needed help to civilians. Incidents like yesterday’s simply should not happen. Israel has also not done enough to protect civilians. The United States has repeatedly urged Israel to deconflict their military operations against Hamas with humanitarian operations, in order to avoid civilian casualties.

The United States will continue to do all we can to deliver humanitarian assistance to Palestinian civilians in Gaza, through all available means. I will continue to press Israel to do more to facilitate that aid. And we are pushing hard for an immediate ceasefire as part of a hostage deal. I have a team in Cairo working on this right now.

Earlier today, I spoke with my friend Chef José Andrés, the founder of World Central Kitchen, to convey my deepest condolences for the deaths of these courageous aid workers and to express my continued support for his and his team’s relentless and heroic efforts to get food to hungry people around the globe.

May God bless the humanitarian workers killed yesterday and comfort their families and loved ones in their grief.

Antony Blinken:

https://twitter.com/SecBlinken/status/1775228892430610541

Antony Blinken: “We’ve spoken directly to the Israeli government about this particular incident. We’ve urged a swift, thorough and impartial investigation to understand exactly what happened.”

https://twitter.com/samhusseini/status/1775225004977770699
https://twitter.com/decensorednews/status/1775222983901974845
https://twitter.com/RickyFromDaRock/status/1775225360994484392

State propagandist John Kirby:

https://twitter.com/AssalRad/status/1775262363761131667
https://twitter.com/MiddleEastEye/status/1775277326168981968

Reporter: “Is firing a missile at people delivering food and killing them not a violation of international humanitarian law?”

John Kirby (gaslighting and with a liar’s smirk also on his face): “Well, Israelis have already admitted that this was a mistake that they made. They’re doing investigation. They’ll get to the bottom of this. Let’s not get ahead of that. Your question presumes, at this very early hour, that it was a deliberate strike, that they knew exactly what they were hitting, that they were hitting aid workers and did it on purpose. And there’s no evidence of that. […] to date, as you and I are speaking, they have not found any incidents where Israelis have violated international humanitarian law. Unless you think we don’t take it seriously — I can assure you that we do [they don’t] — we look at this in real time.”

Reporter [somewhat incredulously]: “They have never violated international humanitarian law ever in the past 5 or 6 months?

John Kirby: “I’m telling you, the State Department has looked at incidents in the past and has yet to determine that any of those incidents violate international humanitarian law.

State propagandist Matthew Miller:

https://twitter.com/AssalRad/status/1774986002731528432

Matthew Miller (gaslighting and with a liar’s smirk also on his face): “And Israel has said that is not what they did, and we don’t have ground truth on, on that question. Israel has said what they try to do is protect patients and not operate in places when there are patients, to evacuate patients from the hospital and only operate in a way that would impact the Hamas fighters that were there.

[…]

I have noted that the IDF said that they have not, of course, established kill zones, it would be incredibly inappropriate for anything like that to be established, and we have not seen evidence at this point that they have.

https://twitter.com/AssalRad/status/1774987148107915706

Ziofascist UK regime leader Rishi Sunak:

https://twitter.com/ITVNewsPolitics/status/1775124047870689753

Rishi Sunak: “We are asking Israel to investigate what happened urgently, cause clearly there are questions that need to be answered.”

Foreign Minister David Cameron:

https://twitter.com/David_Cameron/status/1775096297122414710 to https://twitter.com/David_Cameron/status/1775096307427742136

Reactions:

https://twitter.com/georgegalloway/status/1775153814506443086 to https://twitter.com/Concreteisland2/status/1775106852453228914
https://twitter.com/Lowkey0nline/status/1775216979231584377; https://twitter.com/Lowkey0nline/status/1775262135716847896

As a consequence of Ziofascist Israel’s deliberate targeting of the WCK convoy, it was not only the WCK itself but also the second biggest provider of humanitarian aid after UNWRA which stopped its much needed operations in Palestine:

https://twitter.com/NYplaid/status/1775143608397541455; https://twitter.com/NYplaid/status/1775034507076268128
https://twitter.com/AneraOrg/status/1775194707389235705; https://www.anera.org/faq-emergency-response-gaza-west-bank/

Sanctions and indictments against the genocidal settler-colonialist terrorist state of Ziofascist Israel were consequently requested:

https://twitter.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1775104162818072830

3. Reactions from April 3 to 10

April 3

Even though he has no doubt US intelligence connections and is most likely playing a different game in the background, it is nevertheless worth listening to what WCK co-founder José Andrés had to say about Ziofascist Israel’s murders of the WCK staff which coincidentally — and aside from the Palestinian driver — came exclusively from Five Eyes (UK, USA, Australia) and NATO (Poland) countries, because Andrés was also not buying the transparent Ziofascist Israeli excuses:

https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1775634443866141003

WCK co-founder José Andrés: “We have three British individuals and three international crew, plus one Palestinian that they were targeted systematically, car by car. And this happened over more than 1.5, 1.8 kilometers. So this was not just a bad luck situation where, oops, we dropped the bomb in the wrong place, or… No. This was over 1.5, 1.8 kilometers with a very defined humanitarian convoy that had signs in the top, in the roof, a very colorful logo that we are obviously very proud of. But that, that’s very clear who we are and what we do. What I know is that we were targeted deliberately, non-stop, until everybody was dead in this convoy.

[shakes head] That cannot be. That cannot be the role of an army. That cannot be the role of an army that has hundreds of drones above Gaza in every single moment. [shakes head again] The humanitarians and civilians should never be paying the consequences of war. This is a basic principle of humanity. At the time, this looks likes its not a war against terrorism anymore. It seems this is a war against humanity itself. You cannot be destroying every building. You cannot be destroying every hospital, every school. You cannot be targeting humanitarians. You cannot be targeting children. You cannot be fighting the basis of what humanity should be standing for.

A reply:

https://twitter.com/LarryBoorstein/status/1775858781299069409

The Ziofascist Israeli agent Barak Ravid is sent to CNN to shift the blame away from the Ziofascist Israeli leadership and towards some unnamed and disobedient “commanders on the ground”:

https://twitter.com/AC360/status/1775348260246360198

Barak Ravid: “I spoke to ahm, ah, an Israeli reserve officer who was in the same unit as those soldiers who shot those [three Israeli] hostages [who managed to escape]. And I remember him telling me, that the orders are basically — from the commanders on the ground — is just shoot every man in fighting age. Those are the orders.

https://twitter.com/AC360/status/1775348260246360198

But those are, but that’s not the rules of engagement that is coming from the IDF leadership. […] At the end of the day, the battalion commander or brigade commander or I don’t know who authorized the strike[!], he interprets differently[!] the orders that are coming from the IDF comm…, ah, headquarters in Tel Aviv.”

https://twitter.com/WaelNawara/status/1776631241883672914

April 4

https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1775831242111426614; https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13270847/Israel-information-aid-convoy-blew-probably-knew-NAMES-people-cars-Damning-claim-British-Army-major-former-MI6-chief-condemns-reckless-strike.html

A former British Army Major has said Israel’s Defence Forces would have known everything about the World Central Kitchen aid convoy before Monday’s drone strike that killed seven aid workers, including three Britons.

Chris Lincoln-Jones, upon reviewing images of the damaged vehicles, characterised the strikes as highly targeted and said the missiles were ‘absolutely, perfectly accurate’.

The drone — an Elbit Hermes 450 — is built in Israel and constitutes one of the IDF’s foremost intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance vehicles.

It carries both electro-optical and infrared cameras to ‘capture high-quality imagery during day or night’, according to Air Force Technology, suggesting IDF operators would have clearly seen the World Central Kitchen (WCK) logo emblazoned on the white cars.

Lincoln-Jones also said Israel ‘probably even know the names of the people on board’, given the convoy had been travelling along a pre-approved deconflicted route, in comments to The Times.

His comments followed those of WCK founder José Andrés and CEO Erin Gore, who accused the IDF of deliberately and ‘systematically’ targeting the aid convoy.

‘This was not just a bad luck situation where ‘’oops’’ we dropped the bomb in the wrong place.

‘This was over 1.5km, 1.8km, with a very defined humanitarian convoy that had signs in the top, in the roof, a very colourful logo… It’s very clear who we are and what we do,’ Andrés said

Gore added: ‘All three vehicles were carrying civilians… their movements were in full compliance with Israeli authorities, who were aware of their itinerary, route, and humanitarian mission.’

Meanwhile, former MI6 chief Sir Alex Younger labelled Israel’s war in Gaza ‘reckless’ and said such incidents undermine Tel-Aviv’s insistence the attacks on Hamas are morally justifiable following October 7.

‘Fundamentally undermines therefore what must be Israel’s political objectives, which is to sustain some moral high ground and some moral purpose.’

‘It’s hard not to conclude that insufficient care is being paid to these collateral risks of these operations,’ he concluded.

‘It’s hard not to conclude that insufficient care is being paid to these collateral risks of these operations,’ he concluded.

https://twitter.com/m7mdkurd/status/1775919058883387756
https://twitter.com/dancohen3000/status/1775950843063210079

Ziofascist Elkana Liebman: “We, the fighters of the Nahal brigade, call on the government to continue fighting until victory, conquer the whole strip, exterminate the terrorists [i.e. all Palestinians], encourage emigration[!] of the Gazans, and settle in the Gaza Strip. We will not return home until we win and release all the captives. The people of Israel live.

We are devastated by the fact that the State of Israel allows terrorists [i.e. Palestinians] to return to northern Gaza and restore the terror infrastructure. That puts the fighters present here in harms way. Also, that terrible humanitarian aid enables Hamas to remain in power. We are calling on the government to stop it immediately. The people of Israel live.”

Ziofascist propaganda about the deliberate triple targeting of the WCK workers:

https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1775696278422233464; https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1775634443866141003

Ziofascist propaganda on LBC which itself subtly participated in that propaganda effort by also speaking of “mistakes” instead of “deliberate targetings and killings” and while pretending to do proper adverserial journalism:

https://twitter.com/NaksBilal/status/1775872663505801449
https://twitter.com/NaksBilal/status/1775886493690851813; https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1775814672844787814

LBC’s Nick Ferrari: “But it’s not ‘a terrible mistake’, is it, Mr. Hyman? It’s three mistakes. There were three separate strikes on three separate vehicles, all bearing the crest or the image of the charity they were working for on a route designated by the IDF. That’s not ‘a’ mistake, that’s three mistakes [which is also a lie, because, it were three deliberate targetings].”

Ziofascist propagandist Hyman [employing the usual ‘it’s all so very complicated, let’s wait for our own official investigation/coverup’ stalling and distraction tactics, together with outright lying and insanely blaming Hamas]: “Well, I, I, can’t, ahm, speak to the specifics that you described until the ‘investigation’ is thoroughly done. What I can say is, when I say ‘It’s a mistake’, it appears to have been a mistake of misidentification. So those missiles appear to have gone off, but it was a misidentification. Now we will get to the bottom of this, and… but to say that… the fact that it had a logo on the cars would suggest something, sadly, ahm, nothing is holy for Hamas.[wtf!?]”

https://twitter.com/NaksBilal/status/1775889261457441016; https://twitter.com/TalkTV/status/1775775485567365401

Fake manufactured outrage on MSNBC with an Israeli Ziofascist minister while also letting his lies go uncontested:

https://twitter.com/_waleedshahid/status/1775934807165272158
https://twitter.com/letsgomathias/status/1775958851503726828
https://twitter.com/4noura/status/1776311003442983334

A very good parody and satire:

UAE:

https://twitter.com/ecomarxi/status/1775941141067641272
https://twitter.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1775943880292147441

April 5

By April 5 and despite offering some details, the IOF still goes with the anything but credible “mistakenly targeted” Ziofascist propaganda:

https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1776195886332215558
https://twitter.com/Kahlissee/status/1776363531853578272

Britain:

https://twitter.com/PetraSchur/status/1776197896313966684; https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/civil-servants-threaten-to-halt-work-on-illegal-israel-arms-sales-2991351

April 6

https://twitter.com/EyeonPalestine/status/1776462428701659305

Poland:

https://twitter.com/MartinKonecny/status/1776530023442157842
https://twitter.com/MartinKonecny/status/1776530025778467074; https://tvpworld.com/76791416/polish-def-min-calls-for-international-investigation-into-gaza-humanitarian-convoy-incident
https://twitter.com/MartinKonecny/status/1776530028555030859; https://tvpworld.com/76806199/israeli-ambassador-apologized-for-gaza-aid-convoy-attack-deputy-fm
https://twitter.com/MartinKonecny/status/1776530030975168954; https://www.reuters.com/world/family-pole-killed-gaza-should-get-compensation-israel-poland-says-2024-04-04/

Ziofascist Israel’s insane representatives also attempt their transparent propaganda routine in Poland:

https://twitter.com/MartinKonecny/status/1776530033609265457

A great summary by Jeffrey Sachs who correctly points out the West’s racism, hypocrisy and double standards in terms of worthy white versus unworthy non-white Palestinian victims:

https://twitter.com/apocalypseos/status/1776496160821449125

April 8 to 10

A reminder that the Ziofascist terrorist state of Israel has a habit of deliberately attacking aid workers and other people, including US citizens, if they side with Palestinians and their human rights:

https://twitter.com/RamAbdu/status/1777375982887764100
https://twitter.com/Kahlissee/status/1777459502989603028
https://twitter.com/gays4falasteen/status/1777737713648816338
https://twitter.com/GFlock_GCSN/status/1778509306352005184

Ione Belarra: “It is regrettable and deeply racist that people with Australian or British passports have had to be killed before people start to open their eyes and see what many of us have been seeing for 6 months. 6 months of bombing civilian populations. 6 months of letting children starve to death.

And just when we thought we had seen it all, we see Israel once again crossing all the red lines and competing with Nazism for the top position in the horror of humanity. When Israel left the Al Shifa hospital, what the relatives of the people they went to look for found was hell on earth, ladies and gentlemen. Most of the corpses were not whole, they were tied up, crushed by bulldozers. It is absolutely terrible. […]

4. More Questions

While this article has brought many things to the light, many questions still remain, also given the highly unusual and seeming lack of coordination between Israel and the USA and UK that appears to have preceded the WCK drone murders:

  • Is José Andrés a witting or unwitting CIA asset?
  • Was the Ziofascist Israeli leadership informed in advance by the USA and about the WCK’s US-intelligence links and mission, did they only find out about that by themselves, or (highly unlikely) were they ignorant of the WCK US-intelligence links? Relatedly:
  • Did the Ziofascist Israeli’s responsible for the drone-murders of the seven WCK staff know that WCK is US-intelligence affiliated or not? Relatedly:
  • At what level in the chain of command was the decision to drone triple-strike the WCK cars until the seven WCK staff were all dead made? Relatedly:
  • Specifically who gave the orders? Alternatively:
  • Do the drone murders signify a breakdown of the chain of command in the IOF?
  • What purposes did the Ziofascist Israeli drone attacks on the WCK cars serve? Was it ‘just’ yet another attack on a humanitarian mission as per Ziofascist Israel’s usual routine? Or did they also know about the WCK intelligence links and ‘object to’ a perhaps non-coordinated US-UK intelligence mission in their area?
  • What were the actual purposes of that WCK mission? Did they perhaps attempt to smuggle something other than humanitarian aid into Israel among the alleged 240 tons of goods? Did they attempt to smuggle in some British special forces for some other than humanitarian mission?
  • Bizarrely: Did the UK, USA and Israel sociopathic leadership perhaps all coordinate and okay the killing or ‘sacrifice’ of the WCK employees to give the “burned” or identified WCK CIA-front back its appearance as a legitimate and genuine humanitarian organisation?

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Gregor Flock

independent philosopher (univie.academia.edu/GregorFlock) and journalist, Global Civil Society Network founder (www.gcsno.org/my-blog/), Tweets @GFlock_GCSN.