HERZLIYA, Israel — A Toronto man staying in a city minutes away from Tel Aviv said Saturday that he and his wife have taken refuge multiple times in bomb shelters as unprecedented and multifront violence continues between Israel and Gaza.
Hugh O'Reilly, a Canadian man who is in Israel with his wife for a wedding, said while they were at a synagogue for a festival, they could hear booms from Israel's Iron Dome anti-rocket defense system.
Later in the day, he said he did hear sirens, and so he headed for bomb shelters with his wife. They were at their hotel for the first one, and they walked down the stairs of the emergency exit to the shelter in the hotel's basement. For the second, they were at a family dinner at a cousin's, and everyone went to the bomb shelter in his house.
"These acts of violence are completely unacceptable. We stand with Israel and fully support its right to defend itself," Trudeau wrote in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. "We fear what the coming days will bring. Terrorism and violence solve nothing," Singh said. Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet said Hamas' violent provocation exposes Palestinian civilians in all regions to"terrible reprisals."
Rescue service officials in Israel said at least 250 people have been killed and 1,500 are wounded in the attacks by Hamas. In the Gaza Strip, at least 232 people have been killed and at least 1,700 wounded in Israeli strikes, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.
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