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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 8, 2009, Winnipeg, Manitoba C m y k Page a5 Winnipeg repress. Com top news Winnipeg free press thursday january 8, 2009 a 5 Edmonton $ 109 Toronto $ 125 Montreal Ottawa $ 145 Vancouver $ 149 Moncton Halifax $ 195 Las vegas $ 194 Orlando $ 211 Washington d. C. $ 215 Newyork Boston $ 217 san Diego $ 291 one Way fares from Winnipeg. Travel must be completed by May 31, 2009. This is just a Sample of our Sale fares. You can also get great hotel car rental and City attraction discounts and earn aeroplane � Miles when you Book at Ai Canada. Com find your Freedom online or by calling your travel agent. You can also Call us at 1 888 247 2262. Offer ends tonight at Midnight this year you re going places. Today Only save up to 50% on Canadian and u. S. Destinations. No fuel surcharge on flights within Canada and to and from the u. S. 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Day of week time of Day restrictions May apply. Fares May vary depending on Date of departure and return. Unless otherwise specified flights May be operated by air Canada air Canada jazz costar Alliance to member United airlines or United express carriers sky West airlines Chautauqua airlines shuttle America trans states airlines go Jet airlines or Mesa airlines. Canadian destinations fares indicated Are one Way and Are valid for travel on tuesdays wednesdays and thursdays Only. Travel must be completed by May 31, 2009. 5 Day Advance Purchase applies. U. S. Destinations fares indicated Are one Way. Travel must be completed by May 31, 2009. 7 Day Advance Purchase applies. To air Canada jazz is a trademark of air Canada. � aeroplane is a registered trademark of aeroplane limited partnership. A Winnipeg based Aid organization will have an easier time getting supplies into the War ravaged Gaza strip. Israel announced a daily three hour ceasefire to allow Canadian lutheran world Relief Clur and other humanitarian agencies to bring supplies across the Border. It was very difficult to find a Way to transport anything into the Gaza strip said Robert Granke cow res executive director. This gives us the window where we can organize together with the israeli authorities to bring the goods in. Its really helping the situation dramatically. Clur and other organizations such As action by churches together act stepped in to provide Aid to the palestinians. They will bring in Rice flour High protein biscuits blankets medical supplies and counselling. Liv Steinmo Eggen an act Aid worker in Jerusalem and Palestine said the situation in the Gaza strip is dire. Hospital windows have been shattered from bombs exploding nearby thousands dont have electricity and families Are being shattered she said. A nurse was on duty at the Hospital when her House was attacked Steinmo Eggen said. Two of the nurses children were killed and three others injured. To help with the Relief Effort Canada donated $ 4 million wednesday for humanitarian Aid in the Gaza strip while repeating its Call for an immediate and durable ceasefire. With files from the Canadian press Meghan. Hurley free press. My. Ca City Agency gets Chance to deliver Aid by Meghan Hurley g Aza City Gaza strip i live alone in my office. My wife and two Young children moved in with her father after our apartment was shattered. The neighbourhood mosque where i have prayed since i was a child had its roof blown off. All the government buildings on my beat have been obliterated. After Days of israeli shelling the City and life i have known no longer exist. Gaza City with some 400,000 people stopped supplying water when the fuel ran out for the Power station driving the pumps. We listen to Battery run radios for news even though the outside world watches whats happening to us on television. Grocery stores Are closed and food is scarce. Hospital officials say More than 600 palestinians have been killed in israelis military operation to crush Hamas the Radical islamic movement that rules Gaza. Many Are civilians. Three Days after Israel began its air strikes on Gaza on dec. 27, my apartment building was shaken by bombs aimed at a nearby Hamas run government compound. My brother took a picture of the room where my boys two year old Hikmet and six Mont hold Ahmed once slept. Their toys were broken shrapnel had punched through the closet and the bedroom Wall had collapsed. I dont know if we will Ever go Back. The israeli army issued a video of the bombing of the Hamas compound which it posted on you tube. I can see my Home being destroyed and i watch it obsessively. On tuesday i stood outside my apartment building but did not dare to enter. I was worried the remains of the nearby Hamas compound might again be shelled without warning. Was covered with shards of Glass Telephone cables electricity wires and flattened cars. This Road was once crowded with students taxis and Street vendors. It was always noisy and jammed. The Only shop i found open was a pharmacy run by my Friend Eyad Sayegh. Hers an orthodox Christian and i stopped to wish him a merry Christmas Eastern churches celebrate Christmas on Jan. 7. Eyad told me he forgot it was Christmas. All the landmark buildings i covered As a reporter have vanished. The colonial Era Seraya was the main Security compound for the succession of a zaps rulers the British egyptians israelis the palestinian authority and then the rival palestinians of Hamas. We used to fear the Seraya where the Central jail was. Now its rubble. Of the presidential office overlooking the sea Only a few Walls remain. For Many Ganzans it was a Symbol of statehood even though president Mahmoud Abbas who also Heads the Fatah movement a snot been there since Hamas seized control of the territory in june 2007. Someone planted a palestinian Flag on the buildings remains. The huge Gate at the Western Entrance still stands giving an illusion of something big behind it. And across the City the parliament House is half destroyed. On Jala Street one of a zaps main roads i saw about 30 boys around a Leaky irrigation tap on a traffic Island. They were clutching empty soft drink bottles and Jerry cans trying to fill them with water. Samir who is 9, told me his family has no water Home and he wanted to bring enough for a Bath because he and his brother smell. So do most people in Gaza right now. In my father in Laws building residents throw out bags of spoiled food. With no Power refrigerators dont run and fresh food quickly rots. Shortages Are getting worse leading to unusual gender Equality in the bread lines. I saw about 150 men and women gathered to buy bread but standing in separate lines. The men complained the women normally so deferential to men kept pushing so now they have two lines. There Are few cars on the roads and most of those Are Media cars ambulances and vehicles packed with civilians. Some look like they Are fleeing with mattresses tied to the roofs but who knows where they can go israeli helicopters Fly overhead. I hear blasts in the distance. The roads have been ripped apart by explosives. I drive into downtown Gaza trying to prove to myself i can still do something i have done so often before drive through my City. I reach the Catholic school i attended where my late father used to bring me every Day. The building is undamaged. I stand in front of it wondering if i will Ever walk my children to this school. The associated press reporting from the ruins journalist wanders through the shattered remains of his City by Ibrahim Barzak driving Back to Central Gaza City i took the Road where a zaps two main universities Are. It Buen the h a to d w at b the israeli army issued a video of the bombing of the Hamas compound which it posted on youtube. I can see my Home being destroyed and i watch it obsessively Gaza City Gaza Israel resumed its Gaza offensive wednesday bombing heavily around suspected smuggling tunnels near the Border with Egypt after a three hour Lull to allow in humanitarian Aid. Hamas responded with a rocket barrage. Despite the heavy fighting strides were made on the diplomatic front with the United states throwing its weight behind a Deal being brokered by France and Egypt. Though the Security Council failed to reach agreement on a ceasefire Resolution Egypt tvs in ambassador Maged Abdelaziz said representatives of Israel Hamas and the palestinian authority have agreed to meet separately with egyptian officials in Cairo on thursday. Israeli air strikes killed 29 palestinians on wednesday after leaflets were dropped warning residents to leave the area because Hamas uses your houses to hide and smuggle military weapons. The casualties brought the total palestinian death toll during israelis 12 Day assault to 688 and drove Home the complexities of finding a diplomatic endgame for israelis Gaza invasion. Ten israelis have been killed including three civilians since the offensive began dec. 27. More than 5,000 people have fled the Border area seeking Refuge at two in schools turned into temporary shelters. In Turkey a Mideast Diplomat who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly said that country would be asked to put together an International Force that could help keep the peace. And diplomats in new York worked on a in Security Council statement backing the ceasefire initiative but failed to reach agreement on action to end the violence. The associated press israeli forces target tunnels near Egypt Hatem Moussa / the associated press associated press reporter Ibrahim Barzak views the destroyed palestinian foreign ministry building in Gaza City hit in an israeli air strike. A 05_ Jan 08 09. Ind a5 1 / 7/ 09 8 27 40 pm ;