Father reunites with wife from Gaza in Toronto, touches his newborn child for the first time
CTV
It was an emotional reunion for a father in Toronto, who anxiously waited at Pearson International airport Friday morning for the arrival of his wife and newborn baby from Gaza.
It was an emotional reunion for a father in Toronto, who anxiously waited at Pearson International airport Friday morning for the arrival of his wife and newborn baby from Gaza.
This was the first time 24-year-old Ahmed Abuajedian has touched his three-week-old daughter.
“I don’t know what to say, finally I got my dream,” he told CTV News Toronto at the airport, still holding the bouquet of flowers he brought for his wife Yara.
Ahmed came to Canada as a student and is now a permanent resident. He had been preparing his home in Brantford, Ont. for his new family while his wife remained in Gaza. But then she got caught in a war zone.
“The war started … and there was loss of contact,” family friend Baha Eliasblhajaa told CTV News Toronto. “He lost family members.”
There were times when Ahmad did not hear from Yara for days.
She was staying in the refugee camp, and says that she could hear bombs going off nearby. The camp was one of multiple targets for Israeli airstrikes.
