Chef José Andrés held back tears while discussing seven of his World Central Kitchen workers who were killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza on April 1.
“For me, I think the grief is going on, especially the members I knew closely,” Andrés said on ABC “This Week” in an interview that aired Sunday. “This hits home because that's people I serve next to, and they're the example of who we are. And that they put themselves in harm's way to try to bring hope and smiles to others.”
Andrés broke down when asked about comments he made last week expressing regret over starting the humanitarian aid organization in the first place, because, as he said, the aid workers would not have been killed.
“I will forever have to live with this, as well as the families and all the members of World Central Kitchen,” Andrés said. “I founded it with one very simple idea: Can we provide food and water quicker than anybody else? Obviously, something like this makes you think. We did what we did because there's a lot of people that are always forgotten. People that are always voiceless.”
