{"id":2211542,"date":"2024-04-02T15:43:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T19:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-heartbroken-by-aid-workers-killed-in-israeli-airstrike-white-house\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T15:43:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T19:43:32","slug":"biden-heartbroken-by-aid-workers-killed-in-israeli-airstrike-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-heartbroken-by-aid-workers-killed-in-israeli-airstrike-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden expresses sadness over aid workers&#8217; deaths in Israeli airstrike, says White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-heartbroken-by-aid-workers-killed-in-israeli-airstrike-white-house%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2211542&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden expressed deep sorrow over the Israeli airstrike that took\u2063 the lives of humanitarian aid workers, as revealed by White House press secretary \u200dKarine Jean-Pierre. The tragic\u200b incident involving a drone strike \u200don Monday led to the deaths of\u200c at least seven workers from World Central Kitchen, an \u200corganization founded by chef\u200c Jose Andres. President \u200cJoe\u2062 Biden,\u2062 as\u2062 confirmed by White House press \u2063secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, expressed profound sadness over the Israeli airstrike \u200dthat claimed the lives of\u200d humanitarian aid workers. This \u2064tragic event, \u200da drone \u2064strike on Monday, tragically resulted in the loss of at least \u2062seven individuals \u2064from World Central Kitchen, a \u200bhumanitarian organization \u200ccreated by chef Jose Andres.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Joe Biden<\/a> is \u201cheartbroken\u201d by the Israeli airstrike that killed multiple humanitarian aid workers, <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>White House<\/a> press secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/karine-jean-pierre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Karine Jean-Pierre<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>The Monday drone strike in question killed at least seven workers with World Central Kitchen, a humanitarian organization founded and operated by celebrity chef Jose Andres.<\/p>\n<p>Both Jean-Pierre and National Security Council spokesman John Kirby briefed reporters Tuesday at the White House and opened their comments with news regarding the strike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president, he called the chef Jose Andres to express that he\u2019s heartbroken by this news of the airstrike that killed seven or eight workers and to express and share his deepest condolences,\u201d Jean-Pierre stated. \u201cThe president conveyed he is grieving with the entire \u2026 World Central Kitchen family. The president felt it was important to recognize the tremendous contribution World Central Kitchen has made to the people in Gaza and the people around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kirby said the White House was \u201cdevastated\u201d by the strike and called for a swift, expanded investigation into the attack and for the results to be made readily public. He additionally noted that the total number of Americans killed in the strike remains unknown, as the death count could be revised up in the coming days. At least one American with dual citizenship has been confirmed as among the dead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kirby resisted saying that Israel did not intentionally strike the WCK convoy, as the Israel Defense Forces have claimed, and declined to say Israel is in violation of international law. The post-Oct. 7 fighting has resulted in the deaths of more than 200 aid workers.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s briefing can be seen in full below.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<p data-video_id=\"asLSfo1AaYI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"04\/02\/24: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/asLSfo1AaYI?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden is &#8220;heartbroken&#8221; by the Israeli airstrike that claimed lives of humanitarian aid workers, shared White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. The drone strike on Monday tragically killed seven World Central Kitchen workers, associated with chef Jose Andres. Statements from Jean-Pierre and a National Security Council spokesperson expressed profound sorrow over the devastating incident<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2645,"featured_media":2211543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24085702806139.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2211542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24085702806139.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2211542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2211543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2211542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2211542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2211542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}