Photo: Sabrien Amrov Demonstrators gather in the thousands in downtown Montreal.

Thousands gathered in downtown Montreal yesterday to protest Israel’s ongoing military siege on Gaza hours after Israeli forces commenced a major land invasion. As over 500 Palestinians have been killed in the past week under an Israeli aerial bombardment protests have swept across the world including major demonstrations in Canada. Demonstrators in Montreal also targeted the Canadian government support for Israeli military actions in Gaza which have heavily targeted civilians and civilian infrastructure in Gaza.

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SATURDAY JANUARY 10th
13h00 Dorchester square
Corner Peel and René-Lévesque
metro Peel
Montréal, Québec

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vigil in solidarity with the people of Gaza.

FRIDAY JANUARY 2nd 12h00
corner St. Catherine & McGill College ave.
Indigo Bookstore
corner of St. Catherine & McGill College
(metro McGill)
Montreal, Canada

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gather at ‘Solidarité Gaza’ banner from 11pm to 12am at the Pavillion Jaques Cartier.

DECEMBER 31st, 2008: 11pm – 12am
at the Pavillon Jacques-Cartier
old port of Montreal
metro Place d’Armes
(see map below)

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Photo: Per Bjorklund. Demonstration in downtown Cairo in solidarity with Gaza.

Protests erupted on the streets of Cairo, Egypt only hours after the first air strikes hit in the current Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip. Special focus has been directed at the Egyptian government’s role in the ongoing crisis in Gaza, as protesters across the Middle East denounced Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak collusion with Israeli authorities in maintaining a complete closure on Gaza throughout the past year. Gaza remains under siege and completely cut-off from the outside world as Egyptian police and military maintain a complete closure on the Gaza Strip in coordination with Israeli along the southern Rafah border crossing.

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SUNDAY, JANUARY 4th 12h30
carré Cabot: corner St. Catherine | Atwater
(metro Atwater)
Montreal, Quebec

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Photo essay by Sabrien Amrov on Montreal demonstration in solidarity with Gaza.

Photo: Sabrien Amrov. Hundreds gather in downtown Montreal in solidarity with Gaza.

Montreal, Quebec December 2008: In response to the current Israeli bombardment on the Gaza Strip, hundreds gathered in downtown Montreal to protest the Israeli assault which has until now killed an estimated 300 Palestinians, the majority civilians. Air strikes continue to pound Gaza for the fourth consecutive day, as high level Israeli officials have labelled the offensive an “all-out war”, while from Beirut to Cairo major protests have swept across the Middle East. Additional protests and actions in solidarity with Gaza will occur in Montreal within the upcoming days.

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“I will play music and celebrate what the Israeli air force is doing.” Those were the words, spoken on Al Jazeera today by Ofer Shmerling, an Israeli civil defense official in the Sderot area adjacent to Gaza, as images of Israel’s latest massacres were broadcast around the world.

A short time earlier, US-supplied Israeli F-16 warplanes and Apache helicopters dropped over 100 bombs on dozens of locations in the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip killing at least 195 persons and injuring hundreds more. Many of these locations were police stations located, like police stations the world over, in the middle of civilian areas. The US government was one of the first to offer its support for Israel’s attacks, and others will follow.

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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28th 13h00
Norman Bethune Square
corner: Guy & de Maisonneuve
(metro Guy-Concordia)
Montreal, Quebec

FRIDAY JANUARY 9th 2009
5-7pm Café l’Escalier
552 Ste-Catherine east
(metro Berri-UQAM)
this is a free event

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