{"id":12571,"date":"2024-04-03T12:17:11","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T12:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/newstime\/world-central-kitchen-names-american-jacob-flickinger-as-victim-of-israeli-airstrike-in-gaza\/"},"modified":"2024-04-03T12:17:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T12:17:11","slug":"world-central-kitchen-names-american-jacob-flickinger-as-victim-of-israeli-airstrike-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/newstime\/world-central-kitchen-names-american-jacob-flickinger-as-victim-of-israeli-airstrike-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"World Central Kitchen names American Jacob Flickinger as victim of Israeli airstrike in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Tel Aviv<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 World Central Kitchen, the food charity founded by Spanish-American celebrity chef Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s, has named U.S.-Canadian dual national Jacob Flickinger, 33, as one of the seven members of its team killed by Israeli airstrikes<\/a><\/span> in Gaza late Monday night. The other WCK staff members killed in the attack, which Israel’s military has called a “grave mistake,” have been identified as Palestinian, British, Polish and Australian nationals.<\/p>\n

It appears their three-vehicle convoy was hit by several successive missile strikes despite the non-profit group having coordinated the team’s movements with the Israel Defense Forces.<\/p>\n

“It was a mistake that followed a misidentification at night, during a war, in very complex conditions,” IDF Chief of the General Staff Herzl Halevi said, echoing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who lamented it as a tragic accident, which he said, “happens in war.”<\/p>\n

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An image shared by the World Central Kitchen shows the seven members of the food charity’s staff who it says were killed by Israeli airstrikes on April 1, 2024 in the Gaza Strip, including U.S.-Canadian dual national Jacob Flickinger, 33, seen at the top right. The other WCK staffers killed in the attack, which Israel’s military called a “grave mistake,” were identified as Palestinian, British, Polish and Australian nationals.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The U.S. government said it was outraged by the deaths and, along with Britain and the other nations involved, called on Israel to carry out a swift and impartial investigation.<\/p>\n