Family and friends of a Palestinian-Canadian citizen lacking in Gaza are urging the Canadian authorities to assist.
It’s been eight days since they misplaced contact with citizen journalist Mansour Shouman, and because the days go by, the state of affairs turns into extra dire for his household and associates.
“And after that his telephone has been off since and now we have not been capable of pay money for him, we don’t know the place he’s, nobody is aware of the place he’s actually,” stated Zaheera Soomar, staff member and Shouman supporter. “We felt one thing should be mistaken, it’s not nearly communication.”
She says Mansour, who lived in Calgary for a number of years, was at a journalist tent at Al-Nasr Hospital which on the time, was thought-about a secure spot.
However on the identical day the hospital was attacked, a number of information retailers reported intense gunfire, air strikes and tank shelling in Khan Younis.
“I imply previous to that sure, he was close to air-strikes, he would video the air-strikes, he would video bombs, nevertheless it wasn’t proper the place he was and this was now proper the place he was,” Soomar stated.
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She and different volunteers began the search and had been advised Mansour might have fled to security, or been taken by the Israeli Defence Power (IDF).
“On Saturday morning we bought three eye witnesses say ‘We noticed Mansour with our personal eyes getting arrested on the examine level between Khan Younis and Rafah, he was pulled apart by IDF and he was arrested,’” Soomar recalled.
CityNews has not been capable of confirm this account.
Soomar says Shouman noticed the significance of serving to and independently reporting to create consciousness concerning the state of affairs in Gaza and doing humanitarian work.
As an alternative of fleeing along with his household, he selected to remain.
Now his supporters have created a petition asking to convey him again and are requesting for the Canadian authorities to contact the IDF to verify his state of affairs and his eventual launch.
