Israelis killed Jacob Flickinger – the 33 year old is forced to leave behind a young family. (Photo credit: DM)
The Israeli terrorist attack on World Central Kitchen staff, was the the latest in a consistent and long list of these kinds of terror attack on aid workers.
Jacob Flickinger, the US-Canadian citizen killed by the IDF while delivering food aid in Gaza, was a retired master corporal who served 11 years in the Canadian Army including a tour in Afghanistan.
He was dad and sole provider to a one-year-old baby boy.
Joe Biden released a statement in the aftermath of the terrorist attack:
“This is not a stand-alone incident. This conflict has been one of the worst in recent memory in terms of how many aid workers have been killed. This is a major reason why distributing humanitarian aid in Gaza has been so difficult ā because Israel has not done enough to protect aid workers trying to deliver desperately needed help to civilians.Ā
‘Incidents like yesterday’s simply should not happen. Israel has also not done enough to protect civilians. The United States has repeatedly urged Israel to deconflict their military operations against Hamas with humanitarian operations, in order to avoid civilian casualties.
‘The United States will continue to do all we can to deliver humanitarian assistance to Palestinian civilians in Gaza, through all available means. I will continue to press Israel to do more to facilitate that aid. And we are pushing hard for an immediate ceasefire as part of a hostage deal. I have a team in Cairo working on this right now.
‘Earlier today, I spoke with my friend Chef JosĆ© AndrĆ©s, the founder of World Central Kitchen, to convey my deepest condolences for the deaths of these courageous aid workers and to express my continued support for his and his team’s relentless and heroic efforts to get food to hungry people around the globe.
‘May God bless the humanitarian workers killed yesterday and comfort their families and loved ones in their grief.”
– Joe Biden.
The irony is, Israeli terrorists who carried out the drone strike, used American made and supplied Hellfire missiles.
“This is nearly three times the death toll recorded in any single conflict in a year”, Jamie McGoldrick, UN humanitarian coordinator for the Palestinian territories, said.
The motive behind this attack is clear – it is to deter other aid workers and organisations from trying to alleviate the Israeli made famine in Gaza, and it has worked:
