Protesters made their way from Dorchester Square to the Israeli Consulate in Westmount, Que., Sunday afternoon. Provincial and municipal police officers were also on the grounds.
Shauli Talmor and other Montrealers with Palestinian or Jewish families and loved ones affected by the Hamas attack on Israel are anxiously keeping an eye on what's happening in their homeland. "I would never hope that something like that would happen," Talmor says.·Protesters made their way from Dorchester Square to the Israeli Consulate in Westmount, Que., on Sunday afternoon in the wake of the Hamas attack on Israel.
According to Israeli media reports, around 700 people there have been killed over the weekend; Palestinian officials report around 400 people killed in Gaza.The attack on civilians is worrisome, said Kyle Matthews, executive director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies at Concordia University.
"We're just here honestly to support our people back home, our people in Gaza, our people in the West Bank —everywhere in Palestine — who have been expelled from their homes and oppressed for the past 75 years," she said. "We can't continue to live in Gaza in an open-sky prison completely surrounded on all four corners with a population of 2.5 million who are living in a lamentable state," he said."We already know history. and we saw that every few years we have something, unfortunately, and that's the only solution, but not like ," he said, referring to the attack on Israeli civilians.
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