The international aid organization World Central Kitchen (WCK) has fired 62 of its approximately 500 employees in the Gaza Strip. This follows Israeli background checks that "identified security issues" among dozens of the organization's employees. "During this process, which we asked Israel to carry out, some of the organization's members were identified as a security threat, and therefore we were forced to terminate their employment," a WCK memo said in Arabic. The firings come about a week after an Israeli Air Force strike on a vehicle belonging to the organization killed five people, including three employees. Israel claimed at the time that the target was a Hamas operative who participated in the October 7 attack, who was an employee of the organization.
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Aid group WCK fires dozens of workers in Gaza Strip deemed security threats
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