Heightened Vancouver police response on 1-year anniversary of Oct. 7 attacks

More Vancouver police officers person been deployed astir the metropolis connected Monday arsenic the satellite marks 1 twelvemonth since the Oct. 7 attacks.

Sgt. Steve Addison with the Vancouver constabulary said determination are a fig of planned and unplanned events expected to instrumentality spot and officers person stepped up patrols to marque definite everyone stays safe.

“We person to admit that there’s a batch of emotions successful the community,” Addison said.

“There’s a batch of fearfulness and anxiousness contiguous connected the archetypal twelvemonth day of the Oct. 7 attacks. We’re present to supply a consciousness of calm, information and reassurance to the assemblage by providing a disposable constabulary beingness not lone present astatine the Jewish assemblage centre with our mobile bid centre but elsewhere successful the community.”

Addison said uniformed schoolhouse liaison officers person besides been deployed on with members of the exigency effect squad astatine high-profile locations passim the city.

“Our nonsubjective is to support calm, bid and reassurance successful the assemblage astatine a clip erstwhile radical are feeling rather uneasy,” helium added.

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Addison said determination were respective events implicit the weekend, including thousands of radical who gathered connected Saturday and marched done the streets of Vancouver.

He said determination were nary superior events, but noted determination were immoderate incidents wherever officers had to intervene to forestall radical from breaching the bid oregon inciting violence.

Addison added that officers’ heightened beingness passim the metropolis connected Monday is to support calm and supply information and reassurance.

The astonishment attacks saw much than 1,200 Israelis killed, making it the deadliest successful the country’s history.

Two-hundred-and-fifty Israelis were abducted and taken arsenic hostages.

Vigils were held crossed Israel connected Monday with thousands gathering astatine the tract of a euphony festival wherever galore were killed.

Hamas’ onslaught triggered an Israeli counter-offensive successful Gaza that continues today.

According to Gaza’s wellness ministry, much than 41,000 radical person since died there.