Kahni says Israel violates international law and allies call for Gaza to aid – state
Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday accused the Israeli government of failing to prevent the rapid deterioration of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and violated international law by denying aid.
In an article on X, Carney said that Israel’s control over the distribution of aid must be replaced by a “full provision” of humanitarian aid led by international organizations.
“Canada calls on all parties to negotiate an immediate ceasefire in sincerity,” he said.
“We reiterate our demand for Hamas to release all hostages immediately and demand that the Israeli government respect the territorial integrity of the West Bank and Gaza.”
The Israeli parliament approved a symbolic motion to sign the West Bank on Wednesday. The annexation of the West Bank may make it impossible to establish a viable Palestinian state with Israel, which is seen internationally as the only realistic way to resolve the conflict.
Kahney said Canada supports a two-state solution and Foreign Minister Anita Anand will attend a UN meeting in New York next week.
The Jewish and Israeli Affairs Center said Hamas did not want a ceasefire and wanted to maintain power at any cost.
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“That’s why we see Hamas thanking the government, including Canada, for the statements that would encourage it to continue to suffer further pain to Gaza and Israelis,” said Noah Shack, the chief executive of the center, in a statement.
“At the NATO summit last month, Prime Minister Kahney was clear: the two-state solution requires Palestinian leaders to recognize the right of the Jewish state to live safely in the homelands of our ancestors.”
Anand said that women and children in Gaza do not have enough diet and water, which is “unforgivable”.
“The Israeli government must allow the unrestricted flow of humanitarian aid in urgent need to reach Palestinian civilians,” she said on X.
Their comments were posted the same day when French President Emmanuel Macron announced that his country would recognize Palestine as a state.
Macron said in an article on X that he will formally decide the decision at the UN General Assembly in September.
“Today’s emergency is that the war in Gaza has ceased and civilians have been saved,” he wrote.
With the angry conflict and humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, most symbolic moves have put diplomatic pressure on Israel.
France is now recognizing Palestine’s biggest Western power, a move that could pave the way for other countries to do the same. More than 140 countries have recognized a Palestinian country, including more than a dozen European countries.
Palestinians sought independent states in the occupied West Bank, annexed East Jerusalem and Gaza, and the Israeli region occupied in the 1967 Middle East War.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that recognizing the Palestinian state period should be part of a lasting security plan for Palestinians and Israelis.
After Macron’s comments on Thursday, Steamer said on Friday he was working with allies to make the steps needed for peace in the Gaza conflict.
“Awareness of the Palestinian state must be one of those,” he said in a statement after speaking with leaders from France and Germany.
Canada, one of more than 20 countries, including the UK, Japan and Australia, issued a joint statement earlier this week calling for an immediate end to the Gaza conflict.
The so-called French, British and German leaders called for an end to the Gaza war on Friday, through an immediate ceasefire and said they were committed to supporting the diplomatic efforts of the United States, Qatar and Egypt.
“We witnessed the humanitarian disaster that must end in Gaza…we strongly oppose all efforts imposed on Israel’s sovereignty on the occupied Palestinian territory,” the leaders of the three European countries said in a joint statement.
– Documents with the Associated Press and Reuters
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