From WNYC Studios, I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Wednesday, April 3rd.

Well, you've been hearing about the killing in Gaza of seven humanitarian aid workers delivering food from the World Central Kitchen

Relief Organization founded by Chef Jose Andres. As it happened, Chef Andres was just on this show

two weeks ago on March 19th. The important number is that World Central Kitchen has done 37 million

meals. We have more than 66 kitchens. We do

around 250,000 hot meals for a total of around 350,000 meals a day. Three hundred fifty thousand meals a day. 350,000 meals a day now gone for the foreseeable future.

Chef Jose Andres on this show last month, and he said it is very complicated to bring food into Gaza.

Listen.

So it's a very complicated process to bring food into Gaza, where the food and the

humanitarian aid keeps changing tracks and then has to be checked by Israel and then again changes

tracks again. And Chef Andre said the easiest place to get food into had been the south in the ruffa area.

It was harder as they moved up to the middle and north of the Gaza Strip.

They can be blockades in the middle by people are hungry.

So even when you are succeeding because you are feeling people,

the issue is that you are not succeeding in reaching the hospitals or the communities very, very north, all the way to

Jabalya, that they are having a hard time finding food.

Chef Andre is on the show last month, and they have now suspended their deliveries while they reassess the safety

situation. Those numbers that he gave us in the first clip from last month indicate the impact

the suspension will have on the amount of food. Gossens confined, 350,000 meals a day is what he said they were delivering.

The dead in this incident are reported to include three British citizens, one Polish national,

one Australian, one Canadian American, and one Palestinian.

Chef Andres has a New York Times op-ed today that begins by naming the names of his seven dead colleagues.

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