Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., is accusing Israel of deliberately killing seven humanitarian aid workers from the World Central Kitchen (WCK) in Gaza.
“The Israeli government knows that humanitarian workers are in this vehicle,” Tlaib wrote on his Instagram Story on Tuesday morning. Alongside the text, he shared a video of a heavily damaged car with a massive hole in its roof that partially damaged what appeared to be a brightly marked WCK logo.
Another post showed a graphic image of what appeared to be a dead aid worker along with a photo of the same worker pictured alive.
“Don’t look away. The Israeli government killed seven humanitarian workers (a war crime). They knew the coordinates of the workers and used it to kill them,” Tlaib wrote.
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib takes part in a protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza outside the US Capitol, Oct. 18, 2023. (Reuters/Leah Millis)
Fox News Digital has reached out to Tlaib for further comment.
Israel’s response to the October 7 Hamas attack has fractured the Democratic Party, with a growing faction pressing the Biden administration to limit aid to the Middle Eastern ally.
Tlaib has been one of Biden’s leading critics at the center of the conflict. Along with the accusations against Israel, he also used his Instagram account to criticize the president for sending more weapons and funds to Israel.
He shared a post Tuesday morning from the left-leaning outlet “The Intercept” with the headline “1 in 5 Wisconsin Democrats say war in Gaza will affect their primary vote.”
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Tlaib shared this post that appears to show a World Central Kitchen car destroyed by an airstrike. (Instagram/@rashidatlaib)
“Biden won Wisconsin by 0.63% in 2020. The [Biden campaign] would rather lose to an accused criminal, twice-impeached candidate than deny genocide,” Tlaib wrote, referring to former President Trump, the 2024 Republican presidential nominee.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the Biden campaign for comment.
Seven aid workers – citizens from Poland, Australia, the United Kingdom, and a dual US-Canada citizen, as well as a Palestinian – were killed when an airstrike hit their vehicle convoy after delivering food in central Gaza, WCK said. The organization says its vehicles are clearly marked with its name and logo, and that it coordinates their movements with the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) beforehand.
WCK is a global nonprofit dedicated to providing fresh food to people in war zones, natural disasters and other humanitarian crises. The group and its founder, celebrity chef Jose Andres, both blamed Israel for their deaths.
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GRAPHIC CONTENT: Tlaib suggested Israel deliberately attacked the workers after World Central Kitchen said it shared their coordinates with the IDF. (Instagram/@rashidatlaib)
WCK CEO Erin Gore called the strike “inexcusable,” and said in a statement, “I am saddened and shocked that we – World Central Kitchen and the world – lost beautiful lives today because of a target attack by the IDF.”
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a statement about an “accidental” IDF strike.
“Unfortunately, in the last day, there was a tragic event of our forces accidentally hitting innocent people in the Gaza Strip,” Netanyahu said. “This happens in war; we are investigating carefully, we are in contact with governments, and we will do everything we can to prevent it from happening again.”
The IDF said it would conduct a thorough investigation into what happened.
