Celeb chef and humanitarian José Andrés has introduced that a number of members of his World Central Kitchen nonprofit group had been killed in Gaza on Monday.

“I’m heartbroken and grieving for his or her households and pals and our entire WCK household,” Andrés wrote on X/Twitter. “There are folks…angels…I served alongside in Ukraine, Gaza, Turkey, Morocco, Bahamas, Indonesia. They don’t seem to be faceless…they don’t seem to be anonymous.”

The Related Press reported that “an obvious Israeli airstrike killed 4 worldwide support staff with the World Central Kitchen charity and their Palestinian driver.”

World Central Kitchen shared a press release on social media relating to the deaths of those members.

“It is a tragedy. Humanitarian support staff and civilians ought to NEVER be a goal. EVER,” the assertion learn.

Based in 2010 by Andrés, World Central Kitchen is dedicated to cooking and delivering meals to folks in want following social and environmental disasters. Andrés and his nonprofit had been the topic of “We Feed Folks,” the 2022 Nationwide Geographic documentary directed by Ron Howard.

“This documentary is available in a really distinctive second within the historical past of humanity after I sincerely consider that governments of the world are taking meals without any consideration,” Andrés advised Selection in 2022. “Emergencies, in a approach, are the right second to indicate that meals is a real necessity for people.”

The Gaza area has been devastated by violence and bombings since Oct. 7, when terrorist assaults and hostage-taking by Hamas set off conflict with Israel.

(Pictured: José Andrés within the 2022 documentary “We Feed Folks.”)