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Labour activists and Palestinian groups called Wednesday for an immediate ceasefire in the besieged Gaza Strip during a downtown “solidarity rally” at Ottawa’s human rights monument.
Husseini condemned as shameful the Canadian government’s failure to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday he would support “humanitarian pauses” in the Israeli war against Hamas to allow humanitarian aid into the territory and to give foreign nationals the chance to leave. He stopped short of calling for a ceasefire.Trudeau has said Israel has the right to defend itself against Hamas in accordance with international law.
Aseel Munir, a member of the Ottawa chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement, said Wednesday’s rally was organized in response to Among the protesters who gathered for the rally Wednesday were Ibrahim Kayed, and his daughter, Jenna, a Carleton University student. Kayed grew up in a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon after his family had been forced from their northern village of Safsaf by Israeli forces in October 1948 during the first Arab-Israeli War.
Jenna said too many in the western media painted the Palestinian cause as a terrorist one. “It feels very dehumanizing,” she said. “It feels like they don’t care about violence when it’s being directed at Palestinians. No one talks about the inhumane acts that are occurring against the people of Gaza every day.”
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