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Demonstrations in support of the Palestinians have been organized almost every weekend since the start of the conflict in the Gaza Strip in October 2023.
Photo: - / Flavie Sauvageau
Posted at 5:19 p.m. EST
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The cold wave affecting the Quebec region did not prevent the first pro-Palestinian demonstration of the year from taking place in front of the National Assembly on Sunday afternoon.
With a wind chill of -23, a few dozen people gathered in front of Parliament, before walking the streets of Old Quebec with banners demanding an end to the conflict in the Gaza Strip.
It’s important to always keep the Palestinians in our hearts, and then always think about how [on peut] help them
declared Samia Bachire, co-organizer of the event, in an interview.
She recalls that demonstrators in the national capital have mobilized almost every weekend since the start of the conflict in the Gaza Strip in October 2023.
We feel extremely concerned by what is happening there. We know that there has been a genocide in progress for 450 days and that the Palestinians have been abandoned by the international community.
she believes.
At the start of the year, demonstrators keep hope
she said, even if they judge hard to believe
that the ongoing indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas reach a conclusive result quickly.
The demonstrators are demanding in particular the closure of the Quebec office in Tel Aviv.
With information from Flavie Sauvageau
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