{"id":523213,"date":"2026-03-08T20:55:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T20:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/523213\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T20:55:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T20:55:31","slug":"b-c-s-lebanese-community-calls-for-ottawa-to-act-as-war-spreads-in-the-middle-east-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/523213\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C.\u2019s Lebanese community calls for Ottawa to act as war spreads in the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As Israeli airstrikes have displaced nearly half a million people in Lebanon, a Vancouver artist who escaped the Lebanese Civil War in 1975 says her personal history of loss mirrors the current humanitarian crisis, which aid groups warn is reaching a breaking point. As the CBC&#8217;s Janella Hamilton reports, the Lebanese community in British Columbia is calling on Ottawa to provide urgent aid and extend visas for those seeking safety from the escalating conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Israeli airstrikes have displaced nearly half a million people in Lebanon, a Vancouver artist who escaped the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[82191,49,48,198525,201986,145558,206154,20739,206155],"class_list":["post-523213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-breaking-point","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-humanitarian-crisis","tag-israeli-airstrikes","tag-lebanese-civil-war","tag-lebanese-community","tag-ottawa","tag-vancouver-artist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}