Father of killed World Central Kitchen worker tells Blinken US should suspend aid to Israel

‘If the United States threatened to suspend aid, maybe my son would be alive today,’ John Flickinger told the US secretary of state

When the US’s top diplomat called with condolences over the killing of John Flickinger’s son in the Israeli airstrikes on a World Central Kitchen aid convoy in Gaza, Flickinger knew what he wanted to say.

The grieving father told Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, that the killings by Israel in the Hamas-run territory must end – and that the United States needs to use its power and leverage over its closest Middle East ally to make that happen.