The organization announced Global Central Kitchen (World Central Kitchen) Relief, Thursday, the killing of one of its Palestinian employees in Gaza stripIt is called the Slot Club, near Deir al-Balah in the middle of the Gaza Strip.
“One of our Palestinian colleagues, Nadi Al-Salout, was killed tonight near Deir al-Balah in Gaza,” the NGO said in a post on its X platform.
The organization, which is headquartered in, added: United States of AmericaAl-Salout was an integral member of our warehouse team since the early days of our response to humanitarian needs in Rafah (southern Gaza Strip), stressing that he was at heart a humanitarian who loved charity.
She said she was still looking into the details of the tragedy, but believed he was off-duty when he was killed.
The relief organization expressed its sympathy to the Salout family and the rest of its team around the world, expressing its sadness over this great loss.
Al Jazeera's correspondent reported earlier that a Palestinian working for the organization was killed in an Israeli bombardment of the town of Al-Qarara, northeast of Khan Yunis.
This announcement comes four months after the killing of seven employees of the same organization of different nationalities, including an American, an Australian, a Briton and a Pole, in an Israeli raid that targeted the organization’s relief vehicles on Rashid Street in the city of Deir al-Balah, on April 1, sparking a wave of widespread condemnation.
Dozens of aid workers have been killed since the start of the devastating Israeli war on the Gaza Strip on October 7, including workers from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and others.
With American support, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving more than 131,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and deadly famine.
