Some Canadians who escaped the Gaza Strip say Canada's definition of family means they had to make the heartbreaking choice to leave loved ones behind. Canadian citizen Amro Abumiddain lay awake in his hotel room in Egypt this weekend, finally safe after a month of constant bombardment. Still, he couldn't sleep, his mind seized with the fact he had to leave his father behind.
"If it weren't for my kids I wouldn't have left my dad, even if I had to die," Abumiddain said by text message from his hotel room in Cairo. Sometimes, he said, he thinks it was easier to be together in danger than to worry about him from afar. The Gaza Strip has been the target of a relentless bombing campaign in the days since Oc
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