Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney | Photocredit: David Kawai
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada is planning to recognize a Palestinian state at the top of the United Nations in September, following France while he sets up a collision with the US and Israel.
Carney said that Canada’s long was the beneficiary approach to a two -state solution due to a negotiated regulation between Israel and the Palestinian authority was ‘no longer sustainable’. He said that the process was “seriously eroded” by Hamas terrorism and the rejection of it exists of Israel, as well as recent Israeli actions such as accelerated settlement building and a Knesset mood that was called for the annexation of the West Bank.
“The level of human suffering in Gaza is unbearable – and is quickly deteriorating,” said Carney on Wednesday in Ottawa.
Carney said that the statement was dependent on obligations of the Palestinian authority, and that her president, Mahmoud Abbas, had committed herself in 2026 and had held elections in which Hamas cannot play part. He also said that the Palestinian state should be demilitarized.
Carney and Abbas spoke on Wednesday, in which the Prime Minister informed him that “Canada will increase its efforts to promote peace and stability in the region and to work closely with regional allies in the direction of this goal,” said a statement from his office.
Canada is the third group of seven land to run the central issue of the Palestinian state in recent weeks. Earlier in July, French President Emmanuel Macron said that he would recognize a Palestinian state at the UN in September. A few days later, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that the UK would follow, if Israel would not stop his war in Gaza and commit himself to a two -state solution. Both starmer and Macron also said that Hamas must release all hostages and disarmament.
Israel quickly said it rejected the move.
“Let’s be clear: Israel will not bow to the distorted campaign of international pressure against it,” said Iddo Moed, the ambassador of Israel in Canada, in an e -mail statement. “We will not sacrifice our existence by imposing a jihadist state to our ancestral home country that our destruction is looking for.”
The Conservative Party of Canada also said that the Unilateral Statement “sends the wrong message to the world: that violence and terror are effective tools for achieving political objectives.” The opposition also said that it is “impossible” that Hamas would not play a central role at the moment in a validated Palestinian state.
The US, the best ally of Israel, has rejected the growing recognition movement. President Donald Trump rejected the plan for recognition of France last week and said it would not change anything. State Secretary Marco Rubio continued and spent the growing Staatspush as “reckless” and one who puts “peace back”.
International worries have been set up in the aftermath of Israel’s military reaction to the terrorist attack of Hamas on October 7, 2023, whereby the UN Secretary General Antonio Guternres says that Gaza is now on the edge of Hungarian and that Palestinians are “a humanitarian catastrophe of Epische proporties.”
Stakes -furen conversations bite last week. The United Nations held a special conference this week about arranging the conflict, which the US boycotts.
The Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar called international pressure a “distorted campaign” and that requires the war to put an end to the war now means that Hamas is left in power in Gaza. Setting up such a state at the moment means creating a “jihadist terrorist state” on a few kilometers from Israel from Israel, and this “is not going to happen,” he added.
Hamas is designated as a terror organization by the European Union, Canada, the US and others.
Trump, usually an avid defender of Israel, said that the US would work on a new attempt to offer food aid to illuminate hunger in Gaza – at odds with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said there is no hunger.
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Published on July 31, 2025
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