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

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Reuters, January 3rd 2009.

GAZA – A column of Israeli tanks, some firing their weapons, rolled into the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday, a Palestinian witness said, in what appeared to be the beginning of a ground offensive against Islamist Hamas.

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Photo: Carole Kerbage. Thousands in the Barbès district Paris in solidarity with Gaza.

Protests have swept the globe in response to the current Israeli attack on Gaza and thousands have taken to the streets in France this past week, including multiple demonstrations in Paris. Thousands gathered in the Barbès district Paris for a demonstration, while a major protest was staged in downtown Paris to protest the visit of Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who was hosted by French President Nicolas Sarkozy last week.

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report by Sameh A. Habeeb, photojournalist and peace Activist in Gaza Strip.

Photo: Sameh A. Habeeb. Palestinian youth in Gaza.

Gaza Strip, 3 January, 2009: In the recent reporting period of this report, Israeli army is using all naval, ground and air forces to attack Gaza. With the early hours of Saturday morning, Israeli army started to shell and launch heavy air strikes against Gaza. Most of the bombings targeted buildings, farming and agricultural fields. The bombings range dramatically increased midday leaving 5 dead and ten other wounded.

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Le gouvernement canadien a réagi aux attaques meurtrières contre la population de Gaza exactement de la même manière qu’il l’avait fait quand Israël avait bombardé sauvagement le Liban à l’été 2006: en claironnant «qu’Israël a le droit de se défendre» et en affirmant mollement sa préoccupation pour la catastrophe humanitaire vécue par les Palestiniens.

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Rachad Antonius, Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal, December 31 2008

Photo: Israeli military siege on the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli government’s propaganda about the war in Gaza has been uncritically accepted by Canadian media, becoming the dominant discourse in most news reports. The violence we are witnessing is explained by declaring that Hamas has broken the truce with Israel, and therefore it is responsible for the current level of Israeli violence, which is thereby represented merely as a reasonable and justified retaliation. According to this view, Israel is only defending itself against a vicious enemy which is still intent on destroying it. At best, the excesses of the attacks against Gaza are deplored, but their presentation as retaliation is not even questioned.

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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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Photo: Fil Kaler. Protesters pray for Palestine outside Israeli embassy, London.

As protest swept the globe in solidarity with Gaza this past weekend an estimated 2000 people attended a noisy demonstration outside the Israeli embassy in London, England on Sunday in response to Israeli air strikes that left hundreds dead in the Gaza Strip.

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