Waterloo man desperate to move wife stuck in Gaza to Canada

The Gaza Health Ministry says hundreds have been killed after an airstrike hit a Gaza City hospital on Tuesday.

The hospital was packed with Palestinians seeking shelter and many who were wounded. This comes as residents in two towns in southern Gaza described intense bombardment early Tuesday morning where Israel had ordered civilians to seek refuge.

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Hamas blamed ongoing Israeli airstrikes for the deadly incident, but the Israeli military denies involvement in the hospital blast and says it was caused by a misfired Palestinian rocket.

Videos show multiple ambulances loaded with wounded people arriving at another hospital just under 2 kilometres away from the hospital where the airstrike hit.

A civil defense official says more than 300 people are dead while a Gaza Health Ministry official said at least 500 were killed and wounded. Both are under the Hamas run government.

Adding to the death toll are another six people who were killed in an air strike that hit a school run by the United Nations Palestinian Refugee Agency.

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Fahmi Turk from Canada went to visit his wife who lives in Gaza on Oct. 2 but his trip was cut short after the war began. He managed to flee to Egypt on Oct. 9 where he is staying now but his wife is still in Gaza.

“It’s just horrendous because whatever international rules are for war, they’re not followed and then the majority of people that are dying they’re women and children,” Turk said.

Nada El Ghalayini and Turk married a year ago and they’ve been working on her application to get her to move to Canada.

“The bombing be more in the midnight when we go to sleep. Just there is bombing a lot near and near us. We don’t know where where it was. We are afraid.”

“…I’m waiting for the border opening and trying with Canadians to leave and go to Canada.” El Ghalayini had to leave her home to move south and relocate multiple times in the past week just to stay safe.

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“You feel terrible. There’s nothing you can do and that feeling because you want to help. You want to be there. You want everyone to be safe. But at the same time, there’s nothing you can do… I don’t know how realistic that goal is, but I’m hoping, I dream and that one day she will be with me,” Turk said.

Several reports say humanitarian aid was stuck at the border between Egypt and Gaza on Tuesday. There’s hope U.S. President Joe Biden’s trip to Israel on Wednesday will help get much needed supplies to the area.

Global Affairs Canada says six Canadians have now died in the initial Hamas attack in Israel back on Oct. 7. They say two Canadians are still missing and could be among the nearly 200 hostages being held by Hamas.

Meantime tensions have flared along the Lebanon-Israel border with four fighters from the Lebanese militant group being killed. That’s the largest number in a single day since the militant group and the Israeli military started clashing last week.

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