'He wanted to provide,' wife of Canadian aid worker killed in Gaza says
CTV
The wife of a U.S.-Canadian aid worker who was killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza this week says her husband was a man who strived for peace.
The wife of a U.S.-Canadian aid worker who was killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza this week says her husband was a man who strived for peace.
Jacob Flickinger, a 33-year-old Canadian Armed Forces veteran who grew up in Quebec's Beauce region, was one of seven people killed after a strike on a World Central Kitchen convoy on April 1.
"We feel devastated that we have lost this man that is so loving and so well intentioned in everything he was doing," Flickinger's wife, Sandy Leclerc, said in an interview with CTV National News on Friday. "It is a hard loss for all the family."
According to his loved ones, Flickinger had been in Gaza volunteering for the World Central Kitchen since early March, attempting to provide food relief to a region that is facing potential famine with resources quickly dwindling.
The Israeli government reports that it has sent in 270,000 tons of food into Gaza since the war started, but officials with the UN have warned that famine is imminent within the war-ravaged enclave.
Leclerc says that helping people was her husband's "essence."
"He wanted to provide, help, support with his background in the Canadian Army Force and throughout all of his deployment," she said. "I feel like it was just a part of him."
