Palestinian Asylum Seekers Rush Toward Canada's "Open Arms"

Julie Masis : Jan 31, 2017
Times of Israel

According to data from the Canadian government, more people from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are asking to be admitted as refugees to Canada—and most of them get accepted.

(Canada)—[Times of Israel] In the spring of 2015, the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada in Toronto granted asylum to a 60-year-old widow from the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File/via Times of Israel)

The Palestinian woman stated before the judge that she was afraid to return to Gaza because her family, which had supported Fatah, was being harassed by the rival Hamas movement.

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