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Toronto: Two persons were arrested in Vancouver after pro-Palestine protesters swarmed restaurants visited by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the city in British Columbia on Tuesday evening..
In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) said it had deployed nearly 100 officers on Tuesday night to disperse a protest outside a Chinatown restaurant where the prime minister was dining..
In its release, VPD said officers responded around 10pm, after approximately 250 people surrounded the restaurant and assisted in controlling and dispersing the crowd, while the prime minister was escorted out of the restaurant..
However, his statement earned a sharp rebuke from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who posted on X, tagging Trudeau, It is not Israel that is deliberately targeting civilians but Hamas that beheaded, burned and massacred civilians in the worst horrors perpetrated on Jews since the Holocaust..
The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) also criticised Trudeaus statement, as it posted, If Canada wants to contribute to the goal of sustainable peace, it will stand firmly with Israel as it toils to remove the murderous Hamas regime from Gaza..
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