{"id":870787,"date":"2026-08-25T10:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T10:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/870787\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T10:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T10:40:09","slug":"montreal-city-council-adopts-amended-gaza-motion-after-removing-call-to-suspend-ties-with-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/870787\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal city council adopts amended Gaza motion after removing call to suspend ties with Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Montreal city council overwhelmingly adopted an amended motion on Gaza Monday night, after removing calls for the city to denounce what the original text described as apartheid and genocide against Palestinians and suspend institutional ties with Israel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The motion passed 54-6 after councillors voted 38-22 for changes proposed by Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada\u2019s administration. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The final version says city council \u201caffirms its solidarity with the Palestinian people\u201d and civilian victims of hostilities across the Middle East; reaffirms Montreal\u2019s commitment to international law; and calls on Ottawa and Quebec to show \u201cgreater leadership\u201d toward a peaceful resolution, including through diplomacy and sanctions against those responsible for serious violations of international human-rights law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montreal city council overwhelmingly adopted an amended motion on Gaza Monday night, after removing calls for the city&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,2619,44],"class_list":["post-870787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-israel-hamas-war","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}