Gaza protest blocks Metro Vancouver container port

Police successful British Columbia accidental demonstrators person disrupted entree to a large Metro Vancouver instrumentality larboard terminal, with the protesters calling for an extremity to what they telephone “Canada’s weapons commercialized with Israel.”

Delta Police accidental connected societal media level X, formerly known arsenic Twitter, that officers astatine Deltaport are “working to resolve” the protest’s impact.

Police inquire motorists to debar the country of the protest, which coincides with the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.

The protesters accidental successful a quality merchandise they are students from the University of British Columbia and different assemblage members.

They accidental the objection besides targets a Global Container Terminals enforcement who is simply a committee subordinate astatine UBC, and shared photos showing a agelong enactment of trucks blocked by flag-waving protesters.

A akin protestation successful April disrupted operations astatine Deltaport for respective hours.

The Port of Vancouver is the largest larboard successful Canada, and GCT Deltaport is the country’s largest instrumentality terminal with capableness to grip 2.4 cardinal modular 20-foot containers each year.

Israel and Hamas person been astatine warfare since Oct. 7, 2023, erstwhile Hamas-led militants stormed into confederate Israel and killed immoderate 1,200 people, mostly civilians, portion abducting different 250.

The Gaza Health Ministry says the decease toll successful the Gaza Strip has surpassed 44,000. The section wellness authorization does not separate betwixt civilians and combatants successful its count, but it has said that much than fractional of the fatalities are women and children.

— With files from The Associated Press.