Canada, U.S. call for humanitarian pauses to allow aid into Gaza

Canada, the U.S. and the United Nations appealed on Tuesday for humanitarian pauses in the Israel-Hamas war to allow safe deliveries of aid to civilians in the besieged Gaza Strip. Dennis Horak, former Canadian ambassador to Saudi Arabia, and Jon Allen, former Canadian ambassador to Israel, discuss the humanitarian situation and the risk of Israel's war with Hamas widening into a broader regional conflict.

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