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EDMONTON Adam Zepp says he was leaving his parents home Sunday evening when someone inside a passing vehicle shouted at him, Free Palestine. He wouldn t have thought much of it given the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, but then on the way out of the neighbourhood, the same people asked, Do any Jews live here?. Where do the Jews live? It s the first time the 35-year-old Jewish Edmontonian can recall being targeted and he is sure he was in one way or another. They didn t go to another neighbourhood. They went to . a neighbourhood where a lot of Jews live, Zepp told CTV News Edmonton.
EDMONTON A massive rally was held in Edmonton to show support for Palestinians as conflict in the Middle East escalates. “Our people are being massacred, our children are growing up with trauma from the minute they’re born,” said Fatmeh Kalouti, one of the organizers of the rally. “It’s been going on for way too long.” Palestinians and Israelis have been at war for decades, but fighting has been intensifying over the past few weeks. “What we re witnessing in front of us right now is genocide, it’s apartheid, it’s state endorsed violence and colonization against the Palestine people,” said Kalouti.