OTTAWA — Around 70 Canadians are stuck in the Gaza Strip and have asked for help, federal government officials said Wednesday, but the Canadian government has no way of reaching them without a humanitarian corridor.
For Canadian citizens, permanent residents and their families seeking to leave Israel as violent clashes continue, military flights from Tel Aviv to Athens could begin as early as Thursday evening local time.
The war, sparked after Hamas conducted surprise attacks across the barrier between Israel and Gaza on Saturday, has already claimed at least 2,300 lives. Israel is conducting airstrikes in Gaza in retaliation for the weekend assault, and has cut access to water and power in what its officials describe as a total siege. The UN warned on Tuesday that this violates international humanitarian law, since it blocks access to the essentials of life.
Joly said Canada aims to work with the UN if there is an evacuation from Gaza, adding there was no such information yet and she would be in touch with her counterpart in Jordan to discuss options for people in the West Bank. "There's really no further information about when; it says just 'in the coming days' or 'by the end of the week,' and we're four days into this," she said.
"There are many, many Canadians that are stranded in Israel as well, and it doesn't seem that they're being helped either," she said. When Canada helped evacuate people from Sudan in April, it would only offer assistance to a"safe third country," Kenya. The government did not provide help with arranging flights to Canada because there were commercial options, officials said, though they acknowledged there are commercial flights available from Athens.
"We tried to get out. Air Canada was one of the first airlines to cancel all their flights to Tel Aviv," he said in a phone interview. Friends and family have confirmed the deaths of three Canadian citizens in Israel: 22-year-old Ben Mizrachi from Vancouver, 33-year-old Alexandre Look from Montreal and Adi Vital-Kaploun, who had deep ties in Ottawa.
She said Canadian officials have been in contact with the chief negotiators of hostages in Israel, and is sending a team of experts to help.
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