India Mosca

For the past year, the “On Gaza” speaker series has been highlighting different disregarded issues of the Palestinian people and shedding light on the importance of questioning Western narratives. For a long time, the history of Palestine has been denied and deformed. This tendency has been reinforced since October 7, 2023, with the spread of a popular false narrative refusing to acknowledge historical context leading up to this day.

Content warning: mention of death, war, genocide Numbers and events may have changed between the time of writing and the publishing of the article It has been one year since Hamas launched Israel’s deadliest terrorist attack, killing over 1200 Israelis and taking more than 250 hostages. The immediate Israeli military response has since devastated the Gaza Strip, displacing around 90 per cent of its population, and killing 41,788 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s health authorities.

Tiohtià:ke/Montreal is grappling with a worsening housing crisis. A recent report reveals a staggering 44 per cent increase in Quebec’s homeless population between 2018 and 2022, with Montreal being the most affected. These figures, however, don’t capture the full scope, as they do not account for ‘invisible’ or ‘hidden’ homelessness. Indigenous people are among the most represented populations experiencing homelessness.