Jacob Flickinger
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Humanitarian worker who died in Gaza remembered as ‘Canadian hero’Jacob Flickinger was 33, and a new father to son, Jasper, with his partner Sandy Leclerc, when he was killed during a humanitarian mission in Gaza at the beginning of the month.CanadaApr 19, 2024
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Father of killed Canadian aid worker urges Blinken for a tougher U.S. stance on Israel in Gaza“If the United States threatened to suspend aid to Israel, maybe my son would be alive today,” John Flickinger said in describing his conversation with Antony Blinken.WorldApr 7, 2024
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Family angry over Canadian aid worker’s death in Gaza, says he was ‘hunted down and killed’Born in St-Georges, Que., to an American father and a Canadian mother, Jacob Flickinger served for 11 years in the Canadian military, including a tour in Afghanistan.CanadaApr 4, 2024
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Dual Canadian-U.S. citizen killed in Gaza was a military veteranJacob Flickinger, a Canadian-U.S. citizen who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza working for World Central Kitchen, was a Canadian Armed Forces veteran.CanadaApr 4, 2024
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Dual Canadian-U.S. citizen killed in Gaza identified as Joly calls for probeIsraeli airstrikes that killed seven aid workers in Gaza reverberated around the world, as friends and relatives remembered those who worked with World Central Kitchen.WorldApr 3, 2024
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