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THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2024 A4 ● WINNIPEGFREEPRESS.COM NEWS I CANADA / WORLD Canada pulls diplomats’ kids out of Israel as fear of broader war builds OTTAWA — The Canadian government said it decided to pull its diplomats’ children and their guardians out of Is- rael, amid fears over an expanded Mid- dle East war. Global Affairs Canada said it has ap- proved the temporary relocation of the children and their guardians to a safe third country. Embassy staff are expected to re- main in Israel. “The Embassy of Canada to Israel in Tel Aviv, the Embassy of Canada to Lebanon in Beirut and the Representa- tive Office of Canada to the Palestinian Authority, all remain fully operational and continue to provide essential ser- vices to Canadians, including consular services,” Global Affairs Canada said in a statement Wednesday evening. Diplomats stationed in nearby Ram- allah in the West Bank and in Beirut, Lebanon, do not have dependents living with them. “Staff at our missions in Lebanon and Ramallah remain in place and are be- ing regularly updated on the ongoing situation and the measures Global Af- fairs Canada is taking,” the department said. Tensions in the Middle East have sparked fears about an all-out war af- ter the killing last week of a senior Hezbollah commander in Lebanon and Hamas’s top political leader in Iran. On Saturday, the government warned Canadians to avoid all travel to Israel due to the “ongoing regional armed conflict and the unpredictable security situation.” The government also advises against travelling to the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Jerusalem and Lebanon. The current conflict broke out on Oct. 7, after Hamas launched a deadly surprise attack on Israel that killed an estimated 1,200 people. The Hamas- run Health Ministry in Gaza reports more than 39,100 Palestinians have since been killed in the war. The Gaza Strip has been ravaged by the conflict, which has also seen a pre- viously unprecedented direct assault on Israel by Iran, as well as Israeli at- tacks on Iran and Lebanon, including the capital city of Beirut. — The Canadian Press LAURA OSMAN Region on edge after killing of Hamas leader in Tehran Israel at ‘peak readiness’; awaits Iran response: IDF I SRAEL / LEBANON — Military Chief of General Staff Herzi Hale- vi said Israeli forces were at “peak readiness, both in offence and in de- fence,” as they braced for Iran’s prom- ised retaliation for the killing of a Hamas leader on Iranian soil. “We will know how to carry out a very rapid offensive anywhere in Lebanon, anywhere in Gaza, anywhere in the Middle East, above ground and below ground,” he told members of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Wednesday. In his remarks made at the Tel Nof Air Force Base, the IDF chief noted: “We have carried out very important operations in recent weeks, eliminat- ing the most senior commanders of our most problematic enemies and we are not stopping.” The Middle East has been on edge since the killing of Hamas leader Is- mail Haniyeh in a targeted attack blamed on Israel as he visited Tehran last week. That came on the heels of Israel kill- ing Fuad Shukr, a top military com- mander with the Iranian-allied Hezbol- lah, who was killed in Beirut. There is widespread expectation that an attack on Israel by Iran and its al- lies — like Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza and the Houthis in Yemen — is imminent. That in turn has raised fears that a strong Israeli counter-attack could spark an all-out war in the region. Echoing similar appeals made in re- cent days, French President Emmanuel Macron urged Iran’s new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, to de-escalate the situation in the Middle East. Macron called upon Pezeshkian to do everything possible to prevent fur- ther military escalation, which would benefit no one, not even Iran, and would cause lasting damage to regional stabil- ity, Macron’s office, the Élysée Palace, said on Wednesday evening. Egypt prohibited its airlines from flying over the Iranian capital Tehran overnight Wednesday. “All Egyptian airlines should avoid flights over Tehran,” a security notice from the civil aviation authority in Cairo read. Plans for flights over this area will be rejected, it said. Such a notice from Egypt is “very unusual,” wrote the or- ganization OPS Group, which informs its members about risks and changes in international air traffic. “It is possible that this is an indicator of an Iranian response to Israel and in turn a potentially large set of airspace disruptions,” the group wrote. Earlier this week, Jordan asked all in- coming aircraft to carry an additional 45 minutes of fuel in case of diversions, while a number of airlines have sus- pended flights to Beirut. On Wednesday, a major bloc of Mus- lim-majority countries meeting in Saudi Arabia denounced Haniyeh’s kill- ing. Foreign ministers of member states of the 57-member Organization of Is- lamic Cooperation (OIC) said it strong- ly condemned the assassination “and holds Israel, the illegal occupying power, fully responsible for this hein- ous attack.” Haniyeh’s killing “constitutes a crime of aggression, a flagrant viola- tion of international law and the UN Charter and a serious infringement of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and national security of the Islamic Re- public of Iran,” it added. In the closing statement by the min- isters who met in the Saudi coastal city of Jeddah, the OIC also condemned “the continued war crimes, aggression and genocide committed by Israel” in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Lebanon’s Shiite Hezbollah organiza- tion congratulated Yahya Sinwar after he was named on Tuesday as Haniyeh’s successor for the top Hamas post. Sinwar had previously been the lead- er of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, where he has eluded Israeli forces for the past 10 months of war. He was one of the masterminds of the October 7 attacks on southern Israel that left some 1,200 people dead. Sinwar’s appointment as head of the organization’s political bureau was proof of Israel’s failure, Hezbollah said in a statement. With Sinwar’s appointment, Hamas was also sending a “strong message” to Israel and its allies, since Hamas was united in its decisions and remained steadfast. It was “continuing on the path of resistance and struggle,” Hez- bollah said. Meanwhile, the Houthi rebels in Yemen and Hamas allies also congratu- lated Sinwar. A spokesman for the militia said on X that the Houthis prayed that Sinwar would receive “divine support” to ful- fill his responsibilities “in this historic phase in the confrontation with Israel.” — The Associated Press CHRIS MCGRATH / GETTY IMAGES Mourners carry the coffin of Hezbollah fighter Amin Hassan Badreddine during his funeral service in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday. ;