World Central Kitchen serves 50 million meals to people in Gaza
World Central Kitchen has now served 50 million meals in Gaza, the organization announced during a press briefing Tuesday.
"I'd like to announce that we have just crossed the 50 million meal mark in Gaza. That is a huge accomplishment for us. We're about 50,100,000 right now. As many of you know, we had to pause our work in Gaza after the Israeli attack on our personnel convoy on April 1, which killed seven of our colleagues," World Central Kitchen Chief Communications Officer Linda Roth said during the press conference.
"Jose, our founder, says the decision to restart feeding in Gaza was both the hardest and the simplest one we could make," Roth said.
Right now, the organization has two main World Central Kitchen kitchens operating in Gaza in Deir al Balah and Mawasi, and "another 65 community kitchens spread throughout the strip," Roth said.
"We have about 400 Palestinian Response Corps members and hundreds and hundreds of more volunteers that are working to feed everyone in Gaza. It's Palestinians feeding Palestinians," Roth said.
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