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Vivian Silver, 74, had moved to Israel to advocate for peace, according to her family.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Vivian Silver, a Canadian-Israeli peace activist who went missing during Hamas\u2019s October 7 attacks on Israel, has been confirmed dead, her family have told Canadian media.<\/p>\n Silver, 74, was killed in the Palestinian armed group\u2019s initial attacks on southern Israeli communities, Silver\u2019s son, Yonatan Zeigen, told CBC News and CTV News on Monday.<\/p>\n He said his mother\u2019s remains had been found earlier but were only identified more than five weeks after the attacks.<\/p>\n Silver, the founder of Women Wage Peace and the Arab-Jewish Center for Equality, Empowerment and Cooperation, had been living in Kibbutz Be\u2019eri, near Gaza, after relocating from Winnipeg in the early 1970s.<\/p>\n In an article earlier this month, the Washington Post described Silver as having spent \u201cher entire adult life denouncing Israel\u2019s treatment of Palestinians, lobbying for diplomatic solutions to the conflict, ferrying children from Gaza to Israeli hospitals\u201d.<\/p>\n Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly described Silver as a \u201cproud Israeli-Canadian and lifelong advocate for peace\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cI met her son in Tel Aviv, and he described her as kind, generous, and selfless,\u201d Joly said on X, formerly Twitter. \u201cCanada mourns her loss with him and her loved ones.\u201d<\/p>\n John Lyndon, the executive director of the Washington, DC-based Alliance for Middle East Peace, said Silver had wanted Gaza to be \u201cfree and at peace\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cRest in power, Vivian,\u201d he said on X.<\/p>\n The Jewish Federation of Winnipeg said it was \u201cdevastated\u201d to learn of Silver\u2019s death.<\/p>\n \u201cVivian was a civilian brutally taken from her home, and now we know, from all of us, forever,\u201d the group said on Facebook.<\/p>\n \u201cShe 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\u2019 terrorist attack and as time passes, to learn of the identity of those massacred in Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n Hamas killed more than 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took about 240 others captive during the worst attack on Israel in decades, according to Israeli officials.<\/p>\n On Monday, Qassam Brigades, Hamas\u2019s military wing, said the armed group was prepared to release up to 70 women and children held in Gaza in return for a five-day truce, but that Israel was \u201cprocrastinating and evading\u201d on the terms of a deal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0635\u062f\u0631<\/a>
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