Montrealers call for ceasefire in Gaza as protests erupt across Canada
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Demonstrations calling for a ceasefire in Gaza are taking place in 30-plus Canadian cities on Saturday, including Montreal.
Demonstrations calling for a ceasefire in Gaza took place in 30-plus Canadian cities on Saturday, including Montreal.
Thousands of protestors are marched through the streets near Montreal's Place-des-Arts. According to organizers, they're demanding "an immediate ceasefire," a "lifting [of] the siege on Gaza" and "an end to Canada's complicity in the genocide."
The Canadian rallies were carried out in tandem with a march in Washington D.C.
"Let's show the world that we are not just people in solidarity with Palestine, we are a movement that will rise from every corner of the world until all our demands are met," reads the Facebook page for the Montreal event.
The protests, organized by the Palestinian Youth Movement, come nearly one month after the deadly Hamas attack on Israel.
Since then, Israeli forces have launched repeated airstrikes, laid siege to Gaza, and restricted food, water and other supplies into the territory.
More than 1,400 people in Israel have been killed, most in the Oct. 7 attack, and 242 hostages have been taken into Gaza, according to The Associated Press.
