Montreal’s municipal council adopted a motion of solidarity with the Palestinian people in a meeting on Monday night.

The motion, which contained multiple amendments from the one originally presented by the opposition party, was passed with 54 councillors voting in favour and six voting against.

The original motion, introduced by Projet Montréal, the municipal party that forms the official Opposition at city hall, called on Montreal to recognize and denounce what it describes as an apartheid regime in Palestine and a genocide being perpetrated there, and to express solidarity with Palestinians and other civilian victims of the conflict.