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Antony Blinken was on the receiving end of a bit of intense lobbying when he made a condolence call to the father of a humanitarian worker killed in Gaza by an Israeli strike. “If the United States threatened to suspend aid to Israel, maybe my son would be alive today,” John Flickinger told the secretary of state, the AP reports. Jacob Flickinger, 33, was one of seven World Central Kitchen workers who died in the airstrike on April 1. His father said Blinken did engage with him Saturday on the issue. Flickinger said Blinken assured him that President Biden made clear to Israeli Prime Minister …

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