British aid worker killed by Israeli airstrike "was selfless," cousin says

British aid worker James Kirby, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, was a caring man and military veteran, according to his family.  

“He was selfless; he would help anybody,” Kirby's cousin, Adam McGuire, told CNN affiliate ITV on Wednesday.

Kirby was part of the World Central Kitchen’s security team and died in the Israel Defense Forces strike that killed seven aid workers on Monday. He had previously served in the British Armed Forces in Afghanistan and Bosnia, his cousin said.

“He knew the dangers, he was no fool in that regard, but he just knew he had to help people," McGuire said.

“This is one of the reasons he felt he had to go and work with World Central Kitchen. He knew he had to go, his friends were telling him this was probably a bad place to go, but he knew he had to go and help people and that was James all over, he just didn’t think of himself,” he added.