A journalist's car burns after it was hit by Israeli shelling in the Alma al-Shaab border village with Israel in south Lebanon on Oct. 13, 2023.
On Monday evening, the prime minister and the leader of the Official Opposition shared the stage at a Jewish community centre in Ottawa, where they delivered an unequivocal condemnation of the atrocities committed by Hamas gunmen against men, women and children in southern Israel last weekend.also had both condemned the pro-Hamas sentiment that reportedly was being expressed at some protests and rallies across the country.
The domestic political controversies linked to this new war have so far been minor, and largely contrived.on the Hamas attacks — which was construed by some observers as a sign of Canada's irrelevance on the international stage. Critics claimed the Trudeau government had been "excluded" from a statement issued by some of its allies.
"Our heart breaks for every lost innocent life, Palestinian and Israeli," Poilievre said on Wednesday in response to a reporter's question about Israel's decision to cut off supplies to the Gaza Strip. "Let's remember that every loss of life in this conflict is the direct consequence of Hamas's conduct."
The Liberal government has called on all sides to respect international humanitarian law. But if the civilian death toll continues to climb, there will be new questions for leaders around the world — the NDP has already called for "an end to the siege and bombardment of Gaza." Then there's the question of how to help Canadians who reside in Gaza; 150 people there have so far contacted the Canadian government seeking assistance. While the blockade of the Gaza Strip makes it very hard to assist those Canadians, federal officials disclosed on Friday that there may be a window of opportunity on Saturday afternoon to get them into Egypt through the Rafah border crossing.
"There's a clear role on humanitarian assistance for Canada," Arif Lalani, a former Canadian ambassador to Jordan, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the United Arab Emirates, said in an interview this week. "We should be at the forefront of providing humanitarian assistance."As difficult as it might be to imagine right now, the current crisis also demonstrates the desperate need for a sustainable peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
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