OTTAWA — A Canadian man killed along with six other aid workers in the Gaza Strip on Monday is a military veteran from Quebec who leaves behind a partner and a one-year-old son.
Jacob Flickinger, 33, was one of seven people in a convoy of World Central Kitchen vehicles when it was hit by an Israeli airstrike in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described as a tragic mistake.
A Go Fund Me page has been started to raise funds for a funeral and a trust fund for Flickinger's son. More than $14,000 had already been raised by mid-afternoon Wednesday.Last fall, he travelled with the charity to Acapulco, Mexico, to provide food aid after Hurricane Otis slammed into Mexico's Pacific coast.
Also killed in Monday's airstrike were Lalzawmi Frankcom, 43, from Australia, who shared a video less than a week before she died working at the warehouse near where the convoy was hit. World Central Kitchen in mid-March became the first aid organization to get supplies in by sea to Gaza in more than two decades. Monday's delivery was part of the second sea shipment that came from Cyprus. It included rice, pasta, flour, legumes, canned vegetables, and proteins as well as a special shipment of dates.
More than 200 aid workers have been killed in Gaza since Oct. 7, when Hamas terrorists launched an attack on Israel killing more than 1,200 people. Israel's massive military response has resulted in the deaths of more than 32,000 Palestinians in Gaza, according to the Hamas-controlled health ministry.
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