Tamer Jarada says he couldn't believe it when he first heard his sister-in-law and her son had made it safely out of Gaza.
Palestinian Canadian Tamer Jarada rescued his sister and nine other family members from Gaza with the help of Egyptian operatives.Tamer Jarada says he couldn’t believe it when he first heard his sister-in-law and her son had made it safely out of Gaza .
Aasma Almasri, 27, and her five-year-old son Yousef arrived in Cairo on March 28. They were the first of 17 family members that Jarada, a Palestinian Canadian living in Calgary, is trying to bring to Canada under Ottawa’s special temporary visa program. “It was full of screams, laughs and we also cried a lot because we just remembered our late family members who are not around anymore,” Jarada recalled.In late October, Jarada and AbuRabee lost their parents, two sisters and 13 other family members in an Israeli air strike. Since then, Jarada has been trying to bring his surviving family members to Canada.
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