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Police in British Columbia say demonstrators have blocked access to Metro Vancouver’s major container port terminal as protesters demand an end to what they call “Canada’s arms trade with Israel.”
Delta Police on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, say Deltaport officers are “working to resolve” protest influence.
Police are asking drivers to avoid the area of the protest, which coincides with the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinians.
The protesters, in a news release, identify themselves as University of British Columbia students and other community members.
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They say the demonstration also targeted the head of Global Container Terminals, who is a UBC board member, and shared photos showing a long line of trucks blocked by flag-waving protesters.
A similar protest in April disrupted Deltaport for several hours.
The Port of Vancouver is the largest port in Canada, and GCT Deltaport is the country’s largest container terminal with the capacity to handle 2.4 million standard 20-foot containers annually.
Israel and Hamas have been at war since October 7, 2023, when Hamas-led militants invaded southern Israel and killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped another 250.
Gaza’s health ministry has said the death toll in the Gaza Strip has exceeded 44,000. The local health authority does not distinguish between civilians and fighters in its numbers, but has said more than half of the dead are women and children.
— with files from The Associated Press.
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