Just over a year ago, a World Central Kitchen employee sent an email to those at the organization’s helm. Urgent, his email was titled. Personnel safety concerns.
It was early March — less than a month before the Israel Defense Forces killed seven of the nonprofit’s staff.
“I have first hand witnessed this organization disregard safety many times in the past,” wrote Brack Watters, a distribution operations manager who’d deployed with WCK to Ukraine, Turkey, Haiti, and beyond. “I feel it is happening again and on a level that is completely unacceptable.”