Spherical 300 delegates from NATO participants and partner states are meeting in Montreal from Nov. 22-25
Reuters
24 November, 2024, 07:50 am
Final modified: 24 November, 2024, 07:57 am
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday condemned violence and antisemitism at anti-NATO and pro-Palestinian protests in downtown Montreal on Friday night, the keep NATO delegates bear gathered for the alliance’s annual meeting.
Spherical 300 delegates from NATO participants and partner states are meeting in Montreal from Nov. 22-25.
Local media reported that protesters burned an effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and lit smoke bombs.
Two separate grunt teams merged accurate into a march, and a few protesters started throwing smoke bombs and metal objects at officers policing the demonstration, Montreal police talked about.
Police traditional high-tail gas and batons to disperse the crew and three folks had been arrested for assaulting officers and obstructing police work. Protesters situation two vehicles on fireplace and smashed windows because the march used to be dispersed round 7 pm ET, police talked about.
Movies and images posted to social media confirmed masked rioters burning flares and battering storefront windows.
“What we saw on the streets of Montreal final night used to be appalling. Acts of antisemitism, intimidation, and violence needs to be condemned wherever we study them,” Trudeau talked about in a submit on social media net net page X.
Official-Palestinian protests had been taking region across Canada due to the Israel-Gaza war started slack final year.
Israel’s 13-month marketing campaign in Gaza has killed bigger than 44,000 folks and displaced nearly the entire enclave’s inhabitants now not lower than as soon as, in accordance to Gaza officers.
The war used to be launched in accordance to an attack by Hamas-led fighters who killed 1,200 folks and captured bigger than 250 hostages in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Israel has talked about.
