A group of 75 Canadians crossed Gaza’s Rafah border with Egypt before it closed again, leaving hundreds more stranded and waiting
Palestinians flee to the southern Gaza Strip on Salah al-Din Street in Bureij, Gaza Strip, on Nov. 8. A Canadian woman who evacuated Gaza with the first cohort of citizens this week says she feels relief she has escaped the brutal Israel-Hamas war with her two kids and is soon flying to her home in Mississauga, Ont.
Global Affairs Canada confirmed the closing in a statement. It said the government is hopeful the border will reopen on Thursday, but that Canadians should prepare for “significant delays and unexpected closures.” “Everyone cried,” Mr. Elsherif said. “And I mean everyone, including people representing the Canadian embassy. Honestly, we would watch the news over the last month and feel we lost them. To see your parents after feeling that loss – I can’t describe it. We are so blessed to have them out of this nightmare.”
He praised the Canadian staff who had ushered his parents to Cairo, saying they had ensured evacuees had hotel keys the moment they arrived, and had checked on his parents’ well-being frequently during the eight-hour bus trip from the border. Ms. Nasrawi and her children left their home in Mississauga to visit family in Gaza City on Oct. 3. In the early days of the war, she tried to calm the frightened kids by telling them the thumping of bombs was thunder, and that ground-shaking airstrikes were small earthquakes. “I didn’t want them to feel the horror, but after a while I couldn’t keep lying,” she said.
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