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‘All I want is my family to live’: Canadian man desperate to help wife, kids flee Gaza
Members of the Alhalis family (left to right) mother Enas, children Kareem and Layan and father Nael Alhalis are shown in a handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Nael Alhalis **MANDATORY CREDIT**
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Palestinians run out of places to go as Israel urges more evacuations to widen offensive in Gaza
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Canada considering options to get extended family of Canadians out of Gaza
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister Marc Miller speaks with reporters, before a cabinet meeting in Ottawa, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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The forgotten war in Syria
Lina Chawaf
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Israel bombards Khan Younis, claims precision in strikes, but Palestinians say no area safe
Palestinians fleeing the Israeli ground offensive arrive in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)
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Morning Update: Diplomats sent to hot spots overstepped their authority, former CSIS director says
A sign for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service building is shown in Ottawa on May 14, 2013. A newly released audit report shows that difficulties with the judicial warrant process at Canada's spy agency — an issue that made headlines last summer — stretch back at least nine years. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Israel orders Gaza evacuations as it widens offensive but Palestinians are running out of places to go
KHAN YUNIS, GAZA - DECEMBER 4: Palestinian citizens inspect the destruction caused by air strikes on their homes on December 04, 2023 in Khan Yunis, Gaza. Israel steps up military operations in Gaza after a sustained truce between Hamas and Israel did not hold further than a week despite diplomatic talks and captives released. (Photo by Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images)
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Canadian dies in Lebanon, more than 100 people with ties to Canada flee Gaza
A new batch of people with ties to Canada desperate to flee escalating violence in the Gaza Strip has been approved to leave the besieged territory as of today. Palestinians with Canadian passports who were evacuated from Gaza sit in a bus at the Rafah border crossing in Egypt, late Sunday, Nov. 12, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Tarek Wajeh
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Israel expands Gaza ground offensive, vows to hit the south with ‘no less strength’ than the north
Palestinians help a boy injured in an Israeli strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on December 3, 2023, amid continuing battles between Israel and the militant group Hamas. Israel carried out deadly bombardments in Gaza on December 3 as international calls mounted for greater protection of civilians and the renewal of an expired truce with Palestinian militant group Hamas. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP) (Photo by SAID KHATIB/AFP via Getty Images)
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Israeli offensive shifts to crowded southern Gaza after truce with Hamas collapses
Palestinians wounded in Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip are brought to a hospital in Khan Younis, Friday, Dec. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
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Israel wants ‘security envelope’, no Hamas on border after war, official says
Soldiers rest in a mobile artillery unit, during an ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at the border with Gaza, in Israel, December 2, 2023. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
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Israel informs Arab states it wants buffer zone in post-war Gaza, says source
FILE PHOTO: Military vehicles manoeuvre next to a fence, as seen from the Israeli side of the border with Gaza, November 5, 2023. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun REFILE - QUALITY REPEAT/File Photo
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Thai hostages have reunion after homecoming from Gaza
Natthaporn Onkaew, 26, embraces his family as he arrives back home after being held for nearly two months when he was taken hostage by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Gaza, in Nakhon Phanom, Thailand, December 1, 2023. REUTERS/Chalinee Thirasupa
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Fighting resumes as Israel-Hamas truce expires
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Temporary truce ends as fighting resumes in Israel-Hamas war, renewing concerns for hostages
Rockets are fired by Palestinian militants toward Israel as smoke billows from the southern Gaza Strip, on December 1, 2023, as fighting resumed shortly after the expiration of a seven-day truce between Israel and Hamas militants. A temporary truce between Israel and Hamas expired on December 1, with the Israeli army saying combat operations had resumed, accusing Hamas of violating the operational pause. (Photo by Abderrahman ISMAIL / AFP) (Photo by ABDERRAHMAN ISMAIL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Israeli military confirms release of eight Israeli hostages from captivity in Gaza Strip
A helicopter carrying hostages released amid a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel arrives at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv district, Israel, November 30, 2023. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
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Israel, Hamas say truce will continue in effort to release more hostages, prisoners
A van carries hostages released by Hamas from Gaza earlier this evening, including Yarden Roman seen waving on November 30, 2023 in Ofakim, Israel. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)
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Mediators aim to extend Israel-Hamas truce in Gaza as last planned hostage releases begin
Palestinian children sell sweets in front of the rubble of a destroyed building in Jebaliya refugee camp, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023, on the fifth day of the temporary ceasefire between Hamas and Israel. (AP Photo/Mohammed Hajjar)
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Freed Israeli woman describes worsening conditions while held hostage by Hamas
Ruth Munder, a released Israeli hostage, walks with an Israeli soldier shortly after her arrival in Israel on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023. A four-day cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war began in Gaza on Friday with an exchange of hostages and prisoners. (IDF via AP)
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Diplomats seek extension of Israel-Hamas truce as deadline looms
Hamas fighters accompany newly released hostages before handing them over to the Red Cross in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on November 28, 2023. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP) (Photo by SAID KHATIB/AFP via Getty Images)
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Evening Update: Truce between Israel and Hamas extended by two days
Palestinians walk among the rubble, as they inspect houses destroyed in Israeli strikes during the conflict, amid the temporary truce between Hamas and Israel, at Khan Younis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip November 27, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
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Israel, Hamas to extend truce for two more days, Qatar says
Palestinians shop in Al-Zawiya market in Gaza City on November 27, 2023, on the fourth day of a truce between Israel and Hamas. The Israeli government said on November 27, it had put Hamas "on notice" that an "option for an extension" of the truce in the Gaza Strip was open. (Photo by Omar El-Qattaa / AFP) (Photo by OMAR EL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images)
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‘Can’t find words’: Israeli families welcome second group of hostages
Orit Meir, right, mother of Israel hostage Almog Meir is comforted by Thomas Hand, left, father of 9 year old Irish-Israeli hostage Emily Hand, both taken after the Oct. 7 assault by Hamas militants, attend a news conference at the Israel Embassy in London, Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. More than 200 Israelis and foreigners were taken hostage on Oct. 7 after Hamas militants infiltrated Israel. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
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Israel reviews list of hostages set to be freed by Hamas on Saturday
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - NOVEMBER 24: People gather around singing and dancing traditional Hebrew songs ahead of the return of the 13 hostages outside The Museum of Modern Art known as the 'The Hostages and Missing Square' on November 24, 2023 in Tel Aviv, Israel. A total of 50 hostages currently held by Hamas are to be released during a four-day truce with Israel, the first such pause in fighting since Oct. 7, when Hamas launched its surprise attack and Israeli responded with a vast military offensive to destroy the militant group that governs Gaza. Under the deal, 150 Palestinian prisoners are also to be released from Israel, and more humanitarian aid will be admitted at the Gaza-Egypt border crossing. (Photo by Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images)
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Families of hostages not slated for release from Gaza during current truce face enduring nightmare
Ofri Bibas Levy wears a shirt with her brother, sister-in-law and their two children, age 4 and 10 months held captive in Gaza, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023. Ofri Bibas Levy has been haunted by nightmares since Oct. 7, when her brother, sister-in-law and their two children, age 4 and 10 months, were snatched by Hamas militants from their homes and dragged into the Gaza Strip. The cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas which gets underway Friday will bring relief to dozens of families. But with militants having abducted 240 people, many families will be left to endure the torment. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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Hamas hostage deal ‘progress’ but long-term peace needs ‘many more steps’, Trudeau says
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attends the second day of the Canada-EU summit in St. John’s on Friday, Nov.24 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Daly
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Cheers, whistles as Red Cross transfers hostages in Gaza
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Hamas releases 24 hostages as truce with Israel takes hold in Gaza
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - NOVEMBER 24: People gather around singing and dancing traditional Hebrew songs ahead of the return of the 13 hostages outside The Museum of Modern Art known as the 'The Hostages and Missing Square' on November 24, 2023 in Tel Aviv, Israel. A total of 50 hostages currently held by Hamas are to be released during a four-day truce with Israel, the first such pause in fighting since Oct. 7, when Hamas launched its surprise attack and Israeli responded with a vast military offensive to destroy the militant group that governs Gaza. Under the deal, 150 Palestinian prisoners are also to be released from Israel, and more humanitarian aid will be admitted at the Gaza-Egypt border crossing. (Photo by Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images)
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Understanding Hamas’s tunnel network in Gaza
A view of what the Israeli military says is the way leading to a Hamas tunnel underneath a house near the Al Shifa Hospital, amid the ongoing ground operation of the Israeli army against Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in a location given as Gaza, in this screengrab obtained from a handout video released on November 23, 2023. Israel Defense Forces/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. REUTERS WAS NOT ABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE LOCATION OR THE DATE WHEN THE VIDEO WAS FILMED
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Toronto man says his family needs Canadian help to get out of Gaza
Smoke rises following an Israeli bombardment in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
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Israel and Hamas four-day truce starts tomorrow, some Israeli hostages will be released
Israeli soldiers stand on a tank, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas, near Israel's border with Gaza in southern Israel, November 23, 2023. REUTERS/Amir Cohen TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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Israel-Hamas hostage deal offers hope for longer-term peace in Gaza, Trudeau says
Families and friends of about 240 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza call for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to bring them home during a demonstration in Tel Aviv, Israel Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023. Israel’s Cabinet has approved a ceasefire agreement with the Hamas militant group that would bring a temporary halt to a devastating war that has continued for more than six weeks. The Israeli government said that under an outline of the deal, Hamas is to free at least 50 of the roughly 240 hostages taken in its Oct. 7 attack over a four-day period. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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Israeli Cabinet approves truce for hostages deal with Hamas; Palestinian prisoners also to be freed
Families and friends of about 240 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza call for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to bring them home during a demonstration in Tel Aviv, Israel Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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Evening Update: Ottawa’s economic update promises more affordable homes; Netanyahu asks Israeli government to back hostage deal
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland make their way to the House of Commons to present the Fall Economic Statement on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023.
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In Gaza, civilian evacuation looks like forced displacement. That cannot be the way forward
Lama Mourad and Stephanie Schwartz