While Israel is preparing to raise the conflict in Gaza, lawyers gathered in Vancouver in an attempt to press the federal government to speed up the efforts to help Palestinians reunite with family members in Canada.
Demonstrants gathered outside the offices of immigration, refugees and citizenship Canada (IRCC) in Hornby Street, where they accused Ottawa of the failure of his promises to help those who are dealing with hunger and violence in Gaza.
Speakers describe the losing of family members and horrible circumstances as the conflict approaches its two -year anniversary.
Ottawa announced in December 2023 that it would accept 7,500 Palestinians from Gaza who have families in Canada, with a program that offers work and study operations and temporary residence status, said Nariman Ajjur.
But despite the fact that applicants are released for being eligible and security and background checks, Canada does not seem willing to act quickly as it did to welcome Ukrainian refugees, she said.
“But now almost two years, the reality is strongly different. Nulvacuation has been immediately facilitated by Canada. Through this program, fewer than 1,000 Palestinians have achieved Palestinians in Canada, most of them have to risk everything to escape in itself and pay bribes to companies in Egypt,” she said.
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“In the meantime, Canada has processed more than 8,000 visas for Israelis and welcomed more than 298,000 Ukrainians.”
Proponents of Palestinians have been organizing sit-ins outside IRCC offices throughout the country for weeks and demand the evacuation of family members and loved ones.
Organizers said that the countries such as France and Germany have shown that the evacuation and reunification of families from Gaza can be successfully completed.
Mohammed Zaqout told Global News that his mother, three brothers and parents -in -law are stranded in Gaza, even though they are registered in the Canadian program.
“We did everything well and answered all the questions … Including information about scars and just a very humiliating process that was really uncomfortable and weird,” he said.
“And they received codes, those codes that were told us, are a kind of their way … So we waited for Canada to evacuate our family, to actually take them somewhere where they can do their biometrics and hopefully get their visa.”
In a statement, IRCC said that physical security screening can only be completed after people leave Gaza, because it has no formal presence on the territory.
It said that it will continue to work closely with local authorities to advocate the safety of people in Gaza.
Israel announced plans to resit Gaza City and other heavily populated areas after the conversations of the Stakes-Fires started last month.
The Israeli army says it is planning to call 60,000 reservists for the operation, of which civil servants say they are focusing on the underground tunnel network of Hamas.
It comes as negotiators to allow Israel and Hamas to agree with the end of their 22 months, and because law groups warn that an extensive attack could deepen the crisis in the Gaza Strip, where most of the approximately 2 million inhabitants are displaced, many territories have been reduced to ruins and the population of the threat of threat.
Hamas guided militants killed around 1200 people, mainly citizens, and kidnapped 251 others in the attack of 7 October 2023 who caused the conflict. More than half of the hostages have been released in cease -the fire or other deals. According to the Ministry of Gaza, the offensive of Israel killed around 61,500 Palestinians.
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