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Ottawa is refusing to bring injured children from Gaza to Canada for treatment, despite pleas from hospitals, health-care workers and the Ontario government. It’s too risky to transport injured children and keep them away from family, Foreign Affairs spokesperson Adam Hodge via email. He said Ottawa’s “exploring” other kinds of aid but wouldn’t say what that would entail or when it would materialize. In the meantime, Izzeldine Abuelaish can’t believe anyone would refuse to help a hurt child. “It’s an ethical responsibility to jump and to give help in times of need,” he said, urging the federal Tories to imagine Gaza’s children as their own. “What do they expect… people to do for them? For someone to say ‘No, I’m not treating your son or your daughter?’” Abuelaish, a Palestinian-Canadian doctor now at Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, asked Ontario Health a week ago to make resources available in the province for children injured in the conflict. Abuelaish’s three daughters were killed in 2009 when his home in Gaza was struck by an Israeli shell. He established Daughters for Life in their memory.

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