A 62-year-old Ontario woman says her brother has died in northern Gaza after weeks spent searching for food and refuge while he waited for word from the federal government about whether he could come to Canada.
Palestinian Canadians Marcus Karashuli, 36, and his mother, Sawsan Karashuli, 62, are seen in Kitchener, Ont., on Friday, March 15, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Carlos Osorio
As of March 11, 986 applications had been accepted into processing under the program, but only 14 people had managed to cross from Gaza into Egypt for the required final screenings and been cleared to come to Canada, the federal Immigration Department said in a statement. Qarsholi was 67 when he died. There were no functioning hospitals left in northern Gaza, so there was no doctor to pronounce him dead or determine how he died.Blackouts and infrastructure damage made it difficult for the Karashulis to stay in touch with their relatives in Gaza, but Sawsan Karashuli said pictures sent to her through scant internet connections showed that her kind, beloved and well-respected brother had become a frail, starving man whose skin clung to the hollows in his skull.
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