Militant/Alexandre Geoffroy

Several thousand people demonstrated in Ottawa, Canada, September 28 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the massacres of Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Lebanon in September 1982. While the two refugee camps, home to 30,000 people, were surrounded by Israeli tanks, ultrarightist paramilitary forces entered the camps and murdered more than 2,000 civilians. The actions of the Israeli forces were overseen by Ariel Sharon, then Israel’s minister of defense. Protesters at the Ottawa rally called for an end to Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and demanded that the Canadian government cut all its ties to Israel. Participants came from Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, and other cities. Pictured above are protesters carrying coffins of those killed in the struggle against Israeli aggression.  
 
 
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