The time Israel killed a Canadian soldier
News reports have noted that Jacob Flickinger, the World Central Kitchen aid worker killed by Israel in an attack in Gaza that also left six fellow aid workers dead, was a Canadian Forces veteran.
This, however, is not the first time a former or serving Canadian Forces member has been killed by Israel.
In 2006, Canadian Maj. Paeta Hess-von Kruedener and three other United Nations observers were killed by Israel in a targeted attack in Lebanon. They died when the Israeli military destroyed their small outpost with repeated artillery barrages as well as an attack by a fighter aircraft.
Reporter investigates killing in magazine piece
Adam Day wrote an amazing investigation about this unlawful killing in the Royal Canadian Legion magazine.
Day also reported on how the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces tried to cover up the killing so as not to embarrass Israel. Day noted that DND removed the publicly available Board of Inquiry into Hess-von Kruedener’s killing from the internet. Then DND refused to provide Day with the previously available public board of inquiry report into the major’s death. The department and Canadian Forces officials claimed Day needed to use the Access-to-Information law to obtain a copy.
But Day eventually got a copy of the report by “other means” and posted it on the web.
You can read Adam Adam’s investigation, published in January 2013, here:
Other media cover the topic
Also coverage from the Edmonton Journal on this topic by David Pugliese:
https://www.pressreader.com/canada/edmonton-journal/20121226/281659662373010
In addition, CBC reported in 2008 that shortly before he was killed by the Israelis, Hess-von Kruedener sent e-mails home to Canada reporting that Israel was bombing schools and waging “a campaign of terror against the Lebanese people.”
That article is here:
Hess-von Kruedener memorial page is here at Veterans Affairs
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/80003151
PHOTO: Maj. Paeta Hess-von Kruedener.
