World Central Kitchen requires impartial investigation into Israeli air strike on Gaza assist employees

Humanitarian meals charity World Central Kitchen has known as for an impartial investigation into the Israeli air strike that killed seven of its assist employees, together with three British nationals, in Gaza on Monday.

WCK issued an announcement on Thursday morning calling for the governments of Australia, Canada, the US, the UK and Poland – the nations from which six of the employees hailed – to hitch a third-party investigation into the drone bombardment on the charity’s convoy.

The investigation should set up “whether or not [the drone strikes] had been carried out deliberately or in any other case violated worldwide regulation”, it stated in an announcement on Thursday.

The charity has stated seven of its employees, together with a Palestinian driver, had been killed by a sustained drone barrage in opposition to their marked convoy, after unloading 100 tonnes of meals assist from a barge on 1 April.

The victims embody British nationals John Chapman, 57, James “Jim” Henderson, 33, and James Kirby, 47.

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