A employee provides teddy bears to a charitable artwork set up titled “Echo of Misplaced Innocence”, displayed at Barahat Msheireb in Doha on September 18, 2024. The set up that includes over 15,000 small teddy bear sculptures, with every teddy representing a toddler’s life killed because of the warfare within the Gaza Strip, goals to help Gaza’s youngsters by promoting every of the items by way of the group Qatar Charity, with all proceeds going to assist efforts within the Gaza Strip. Agence France-Presse
OTTAWA — Canada on Wednesday introduced additional sanctions towards Hamas over its “acts of terror” and several other Israeli settlers for “extremist violence” towards Palestinian civilians within the West Financial institution.
Ottawa additionally, together with Australia and the US, added 5 senior Iranian officers to its sanctions checklist for his or her roles in insurance policies resulting in the violent repression of protests.
The brand new sanctions goal 11 people and two entities with roles in Hamas’s monetary community that Ottawa mentioned was used within the planning and execution of assaults on Israel launched on October 7, 2023, the federal government mentioned in a press release.
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4 Israelis, in addition to the Mount Hebron Fund and Shlom Asiraich, have been additionally listed for “collaborating in or facilitating acts of harassment and violence, together with assaults on humanitarian convoys… and displacement of Palestinian communities.”
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The newest sanctions towards 5 senior Iranian officers have been introduced to mark the 2 years because the demise in Iranian custody of Mahsa Amini, following her arrest for an alleged breach of Tehran’s strict gown code for girls.
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Because the sanctions have been rolled out, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the emir of Qatar, which is appearing as a mediator between Israel and Hamas, together with Egypt and the US.
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Trudeau expressed a “deep concern over the danger of an expanded battle between Israel and Iran in addition to Hezbollah and different Iran-aligned teams,” in accordance with a readout of their talks.
The October 7 assault that sparked the warfare resulted within the deaths of 1,205 folks on the Israeli facet, most of them civilians, in accordance with an AFP tally based mostly on official Israeli figures that features hostages killed in captivity.
Out of 251 hostages seized by militants, 97 are nonetheless held in Gaza, together with 33 the Israeli army says are lifeless.
Israel’s retaliatory army offensive has killed not less than 41,272 folks in Gaza, most of them civilians, in accordance with information offered by the Hamas-run territory’s well being ministry. The UN has acknowledged these figures as dependable.