Canadian ‘hero’ died in Israel shielding others from Hamas, family says

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Israel, where he was vacationing with friends and had been attending a music festival about five kilometres from the border with Gaza. But the festivities had been interrupted by Hamas militants storming into Israel, and Ohnona could hear screams and gunfire in the background as her son spoke to her.“He said, ‘Mommy, we’re in the middle of a terrorist attack,'” Ohnona said in an interview with Global News on Tuesday.A short while later, Look was dead, one of at least two Canadians who are among over 1,000 people now confirmed to have been killed in Israel since the attack by Hamas began Saturday.As of Tuesday, about 900 people have been killed in Gaza and the West Bank, including 260 children and 230 women, according to authorities there.

Israel says hundreds of Hamas fighters are among them.Thousands of people have been wounded on both sides of the conflict.Ohnona believes she heard the moment her son was shot.She said Look was in a car when he called, having escaped “unimaginable” atrocities at the outdoor Tribe of Nova festival grounds where thousands of people had been dancing to electronic music. At least 260 bodies have been recovered from the site, according to Israeli authorities.Look and his friends then found refuge in a nearby bomb shelter.“You could see the panic” during the video call, she said.

“There were about 30 of them and you could hear girls crying and they were scared.”With cars of armed Hamas militants roaming the streets, Look’s group had nowhere to run, and Ohnona said she heard an Israeli security agent urging everyone to stay put. She said her son took it upon himself to act as lookout, scanning the area from the door-less entryway of the shelter.“And then I hear him yell to his friends, ‘The