OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada is deeply concerned by the dire and worsening crisis in Gaza and wants a humanitarian corridor to be opened into the enclave, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday.
“It is imperative that this happen,” Trudeau told the House of Commons lower chamber of parliament. Israel has put Gaza, home to 2.3 million Palestinians, under a total blockade and pounded it with unprecedented air strikes.
(Reporting by David Ljunggren and Ismail Shakil; editing by Jonathan Oatis)