The NGO said World Central Kitchen staff, including citizens from Australia, Britain and Poland, were killed in Israeli airstrikes in central Gaza on Monday.

Here are the details of WCK:

• The US-based NGO WCK was founded by Michelin-starred celebrity chef Jose Andres and his wife Patricia in 2010 after the massive earthquake in Haiti. To provide emergency food assistance to survivors.
• WCK builds on this and scales up to provide resilience training, meals and support to survivors of other natural disasters, as well as to refugees and people affected by conflict.
• Since the Russian invasion in 2022, WCK has served tens of millions of meals in Ukraine.
• In March, WCK was involved in delivering the first aid shipment from Cyprus to Gaza via the maritime corridor. A second batch of WCK maritime aid carrying 332 tons of food is scheduled to arrive in Gaza early this week.
• Founder Andres is a Hispanic American chef, restaurateur and cookbook author. His avant-garde restaurant “minibar by Jose Andres” in Washington, D.C., holds two Michelin stars. In 2015, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama.