The Spanish chef Jose Andres has demanded an independent investigation into the Israeli attack that ended on April 1 with the lives of seven collaborators of his NGO, World Central Kitchen (WCK). The chef, dressed in black, reiterated his request during an emotional speech at the Washington National Cathedral, where hundreds of people gathered for an interfaith ceremony to pay tribute to the seven aid workers killed in the Israeli attack. “I know we all have a lot of unanswered questions about what happened and why. There is no excuse for these murders. The official explanation is not enough. And obviously we continue to demand an investigation into the actions of the Israeli Armed Forces against our team,” she stated.

The chef already called after the attack for an independent investigation into the attack on the WCK convoy and has urged the United States, Australia, Canada, Poland and the United Kingdom, countries of origin of the deceased aid workers, to join this call, although Washington He has already refused to do so. “Food can never be a weapon of war, Humanitarian workers can never be a target because they are the best of us,” said José Andrés, who said that “every civilian life is sacred and should never be treated as collateral damage.”

Quoting the writer Elie Wiesel, Jose Andres He called for an end to indifference. “The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it is indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it is indifference. It’s time to end indifference“, has asked.

The chef began his speech by speaking one by one about the seven deceased collaborators, which has caused his voice to break when speaking and had to hold back tears.