Dalia Salim has spent the last few days desperately trying to pass messages on to her father from the Canadian government about when he will be able to escape the besieged Gaza Strip.
As far as she knows, her 66-year-old father Sami has been sleeping in a tent on a vacant lot in the southern part of the territory, awaiting word that his name would be added to list of foreign nationals allowed to cross the Rafah border in Egypt and return to Canada.
Global Affairs also informed her that evacuations for Canadian citizens, permanent residents and family members were now tentatively scheduled to begin as early as Tuesday, she said. The war entered what Israeli officials described as a new phase on Sunday as the country's military announced it had encircled Gaza City and divided the besieged coastal strip in two.
If the standstill at the border is resolved, Canada's ambassador to Egypt hopes to see as many as 200 Canadians come through on the first day, he told CTV's Question Period Sunday. There were no clear reasons behind the closure at the Rafah crossing. A spokesman with the Palestinian Crossings Authority said Saturday that officials in Gaza didn't allow foreign passport holders to leave because Israel was preventing the evacuation of Palestinian patients for treatment in Egypt.
He's now trapped in the northern part of the territory with limited food and water, Al-Sabbagh said. The situation is scary and she fears the road to the border is even more dangerous. Some Palestinians appeared to heed the order as intense bombardment continued in the northern part of the territory.
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