Maritimers watching and worrying as the Israel-Gaza war intensifies
CTV
Many people in the Maritimes are watching and worrying as the Israel-Gaza war escalates by the day.
For Jewish-Canadian Pavel Jeloudovski, been watching the footage of the attacks by Hamas Saturday on Israel has emotionally difficult.
“The deliberate, hateful killing of innocent civilians,” he says with tears in his eyes. “This (series of events) is very disturbing.”
He says his cousin - an Israeli police officer - was killed in the coordinated attacks by Hamas, which has been declared a terrorist group by Canada and other Western nations.
Jeloudovski still has family in Israel and says his parents are staying in a bomb shelter, living just 30 kilometres from the border.
Monday, he was among hundreds who attended a rally in support of Israel in Halifax, as a way to find support.
“To pay my respects to my family member to the best of my abilities, and to help other people who feel what I feel right now,” he adds.
Israel is retaliating and declared war on Hamas Sunday. Since then, Israeli warplanes have been hammering the Gaza Strip, sending tens of thousands of Palestinians fleeing into United Nations shelters.
