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Canadian man in Gaza says Ottawa has asked him to be prepared to leave with family | CityNews Calgary

Canada
Published 02.11.2023
Canadian man in Gaza says Ottawa has asked him to be prepared to leave with family | CityNews Calgary

A Canadian man making an attempt to get out of Gaza together with his household says Global Affairs Canada has requested him to collect his paperwork and be ready to depart at any second via the enclave’s border crossing with Egypt. 

Mahmoud Nasser says his spouse, who has a Brazilian passport, bought a name from Global Affairs as we speak throughout which an official confirmed that Nasser, his spouse, his Canadian father and brother and his Palestinian sister-in-law had been all registered with Ottawa to evacuate. 

Nasser, who’s sheltering at a refugee camp that’s a 20-minute drive away from the Rafah border crossing, says the official informed them to be prepared to depart and {that a} bus could be ready for Canadians and their households on the Egyptian facet as soon as they had been allowed to cross. 

Nasser says Global Affairs didn’t present a date or time for a possible evacuation however informed his household to observe a listing being printed on-line by the General Authority for Border Crossings in Gaza that has been detailing the foreigners allowed to depart since Wednesday. 

An obvious settlement on Wednesday allowed a whole lot of overseas passport holders and dozens of wounded Palestinians to depart Gaza via the Rafah crossing for the primary time because the warfare started.

Lists of these allowed out that had been printed Wednesday and as we speak didn’t embrace Canada amongst a number of different nations. 

Global Affairs Canada mentioned Wednesday night time that it was conscious of studies that one Canadian citizen was in a position to depart the Palestinian territory on the Rafah border crossing with the assistance of a 3rd social gathering, however provided no additional data.

Canadians in Gaza, in addition to Canadians with household within the enclave, have known as on Ottawa to maneuver to shortly get its residents out. 

The federal authorities has mentioned it expects the move of overseas nationals leaving Gaza to proceed and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has known as for Canadians to be allowed out.