Hundreds of people gathered outside the American consulate in Montreal late Tuesday to express their support for Palestine.
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The demonstrators, who chanted slogans such as “Free Palestine” and “Solidarity with Palestine,” were invited by a student union at McGill University.
Hundreds chant “Solidarity with Palestine” and march down Ste-Catherine Street in Montreal in peaceful, noisy protest, spurred by the bombing of the hospital in Gaza City pic.twitter.com/77HDeOv6IK
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On Facebook, Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights McGill deplored the attack on a hospital in Gaza.
The aim of the demonstration is to demand an end to this “genocide, which specifically targets medical and civilian targets”.
“The bombs currently being fired in Gaza are American and our Canadian state has given the green light to this genocide,” the student organization proclaims.
The demonstration began at 5:30 p.m.