Palestinian Canadians losing hope, taking drastic measures as Gaza visa program fails to bring loved ones ...

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Palestinian Canadians with family trapped in Gaza say they are running out of hope after six weeks of waiting to hear if their applications for the special visa program to bring them to safety have begun processing. And as Israel threatens to launch a military operation into the border city where more than one million Palestinians have sought refuge from the war by Ramadan, some applicants have given up on waiting and have begun taking matters into their own hands to save their families.

“If the embassy tells them they will not help to get the children out, they will go to Gaza,” Wesam said. Jihan Qunoo’s brother Ahmed, centre, and his three daughters pictured in their home in Gaza City before the war began. Photograph courtesy of Jihan Qunoo Jihan Qunoo, a finance officer for a non-profit organization in Ottawa, previously told that she received a code on Jan.

 

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