Vivian Silver, 74, had moved to Israel to advocate for peace, based on her household.
Vivian Silver, a Canadian-Israeli peace activist who went lacking throughout Hamas’s October 7 assaults on Israel, has been confirmed lifeless, her household have informed Canadian media.
Silver, 74, was killed within the Palestinian armed group’s preliminary assaults on southern Israeli communities, Silver’s son, Yonatan Zeigen, informed CBC Information and CTV Information on Monday.
He mentioned his mom’s stays had been discovered earlier however have been solely recognized greater than 5 weeks after the assaults.
Silver, the founding father of Ladies Wage Peace and the Arab-Jewish Heart for Equality, Empowerment and Cooperation, had been dwelling in Kibbutz Be’eri, close to Gaza, after relocating from Winnipeg within the early Seventies.
In an article earlier this month, the Washington Put up described Silver as having spent “her entire adult life denouncing Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, lobbying for diplomatic solutions to the conflict, ferrying children from Gaza to Israeli hospitals”.
Canadian International Minister Melanie Joly described Silver as a “proud Israeli-Canadian and lifelong advocate for peace”.
“I met her son in Tel Aviv, and he described her as kind, generous, and selfless,” Joly mentioned on X, previously Twitter. “Canada mourns her loss with him and her loved ones.”
John Lyndon, the manager director of the Washington, DC-based Alliance for Center East Peace, mentioned Silver had needed Gaza to be “free and at peace”.
“Rest in power, Vivian,” he mentioned on X.
The Jewish Federation of Winnipeg mentioned it was “devastated” to be taught of Silver’s dying.
“Vivian was a civilian brutally taken from her home, and now we know, from all of us, forever,” the group mentioned on Fb.
“She was a renowned pacifist who tirelessly advocated for peace and the improvement of the quality of life for Palestinians. We are with heavy hearts as we learn of the impact of Hamas’ terrorist attack and as time passes, to learn of the identity of those massacred in Israel.”
Hamas killed greater than 1,200 individuals, principally civilians, and took about 240 others captive through the worst assault on Israel in a long time, based on Israeli officers.
On Monday, Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s navy wing, mentioned the armed group was ready to launch as much as 70 girls and kids held in Gaza in return for a five-day truce, however that Israel was “procrastinating and evading” on the phrases of a deal.