The Australian worker killed on Monday was Lalzaumi Francom, 43, known as Zomi. She started volunteering at World Central Kitchen in 2018 and was hired the following year, according to her ex-girlfriend's partner Josh Phelps.
The last message exchanged was on Sunday, just before she and an aid team departed from central Gaza. He sent her some photos of them together delivering food to her on her reservation in South Dakota. She sent back a heart emoji.
The next day he learned that she had been killed.
“She was willing to go anywhere she wanted to go,” he said. “She was pursuing her dream of traveling around the world.”
Poland's Damien Sobol has been described as the “Michael Jordan of humanitarian work” by his former colleague Noah Sims, a North Georgia chef who has been on the scene of several World Central Kitchen disaster relief efforts.
The two first met while feeding refugees in the southeastern Polish city of Przemysl, Sobol's hometown and where he was studying hospitality.
“Anything I needed, Damian did it for me,” Sims said.
According to World Central Kitchen, British citizens: John Chapman, 57, also died in the attack. James Henderson, 33 years old. All three were part of the organization's security team. Local British media reported that Chapman and Henderson were former Royal Marines who later turned to volunteer work.
World Central Kitchen said the seventh worker, Jacob Flickinger, a 33-year-old dual citizen of the United States and Canada, worked on the group's relief team.
kim severson and aaron boxerman Contributed to the report.
