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American killed in Israeli strike in Gaza was father, military veteran
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/03/jacob-flickinger-world-central-kitchen-gaza-strike/
https://wapo.st/4cKr684
When Jacob Flickinger went to the Gaza Strip three weeks ago to distribute food with World Central Kitchen, he asked his father to tell his mother he was in Cyprus instead. He didn’t want her to worry.
He planned to leave at the end of this week, he told his father, John, on Sunday via text. The two wished each other a happy Easter.
The next day, the 33-year-old dual U.S.-Canadian citizen was dead, one of seven World Central Kitchen workers killed by Israeli airstrikes on the aid group’s convoy.
“He was a good man,” his father said. “He was doing what he loved and just wanted to serve and help others.”
When a friend told him about the WCK mobilization in Gaza, he volunteered to help distribute food shipments arriving by sea. The work combined the skills he learned in the military and his desire to help, his father said.
“Women and children are starving to death, it’s all over the news every day,” said John Flickinger, 67. “He felt he could make a small difference.”
https://wapo.st/4cKr684
When Jacob Flickinger went to the Gaza Strip three weeks ago to distribute food with World Central Kitchen, he asked his father to tell his mother he was in Cyprus instead. He didn’t want her to worry.
He planned to leave at the end of this week, he told his father, John, on Sunday via text. The two wished each other a happy Easter.
The next day, the 33-year-old dual U.S.-Canadian citizen was dead, one of seven World Central Kitchen workers killed by Israeli airstrikes on the aid group’s convoy.
“He was a good man,” his father said. “He was doing what he loved and just wanted to serve and help others.”
When a friend told him about the WCK mobilization in Gaza, he volunteered to help distribute food shipments arriving by sea. The work combined the skills he learned in the military and his desire to help, his father said.
“Women and children are starving to death, it’s all over the news every day,” said John Flickinger, 67. “He felt he could make a small difference.”
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Damn Netanyahu to that mythical place called Hell. There was a time many years ago when , Imight have backed him Arab/ Israli.hconflict. Now he go to HellHell and eat shit. 
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