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Canada breaks with long-standing Israel stance at UN in voting for Gaza ceasefire
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TTAWA - Canada voted in favour of a non-binding resolution at the United Nations on Tuesday that calls for “an immediate humanitarian ceasefire” between Israel and Hamas, in a move that broke with years of Canadian policy and shocked Jewish groups.
Canada’s vote Tuesdayat the UN General Assembly represents a shift in its long-standing position of voting with Israel on major resolutions at the international bodyand arguing the Jewish state is unfairly called out in global forums. We must recognize that what Cont. @ page 5
Packed hospitals, treacherous roads, harried parents: Newborns in Gaza face steeper odds of survival
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EIR AL-BALAH, GAZA STRIP - The birth of their daughter should have marked the beginning of a joyful chapter for the young Palestinian couple. Instead, the devastating war in Gaza, now in its third month, has turned childbirth and parenthood into a time of worry and fear for Salim and Israa al-Jamala. First, they endured a perilous journey, dodging missile fire, to reach a maternity ward. And now, the couple is sheltering with their newborn in the partially tented courtyard of another hospital where they can’t care properly for their now 3-week-old daughter, her mother’s namesake. His wife’s breast milk is not sufficient because she cannot eat enough as a result of widespread food shortages, said the 29-year-old Salim, rocking
baby Israa, swaddled in blankets in How and how long a crib cobbled together from wood scraps. Baby formula and medicine this Ceasefire will act? for the infant’s persistent cough are not available and in any case not affordable. The war, triggered by a deadly Oct. 7 Hamas assault on southern Israel, has unleashed unimaginable destruction, with more than 18,000 Palestinians killed and close to 50,000 wounded in Israel’s offensive, according to health officials in ESHAWAR, PAKISTAN Hamas-run Gaza. The initial Hamas A suicide bomber detonated attack killed about 1,200 people in his explosive-laden vehicle at Israel, most of them civilians. a police station’s main gate in northAmid the devastation, about 5,500 west Pakistan early Tuesday, killing births are expected over the next at least 23 troops and wounding 32 month, out of an estimated 50,000 others, and causing a part of the women in Gaza who are currently building to collapse upon impact, pregnant, according to the World the military and officials said. Health Organization... The suicide attack -- one of the
Suicide bomber attacks police station in northwest Pakistan, killing 23 officers and wounding 32
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