JERUSALEM (AP) — Izzeldin Abuelaish captured widespread sympathy in Israel when he lost three daughters and a niece in an Israeli strike during the 2009 war in the Gaza Strip. Abuelaish is scheduled to appear before the Supeme Court in Jerusalem on Monday in hopes of receiving an apology from Israel and compensation for his loss. The Harvard-educated doctor, a widower who moved to Canada after the tragedy, says he is hopeful that he will prevail. The blast from the Israeli strike took the lives of his daughters Aya, 14, Bessan, 21, and Mayar, 15, as well as his niece Noor, 17. “I am so moved,” he said, reading from the letter a few days before leaving his home in Toronto for Israel this week.
