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Prime Minister Mark Carney said the Palestinian Authority must commit to holding elections in 2026
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Canada intends to recognise a Palestinian state at the United Nations in September under certain conditions, Prime Minister Mark Carney has said.
Mr Carney told reporters that the planned move was predicated on the Palestinian Authority’s commitment to reforms, including commitments to fundamentally reform its governance and to hold general elections in 2026.
Hamas must play no part in the elections.
The news comes just days after UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the UK would recognise a Palestinian state in September under Israel took steps to end the war in Gaza.
US president Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff is set to head to Israel within the coming hours for talks after ceasefire negotiations with Hamas appeared to have stalled last week.
Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt have for the first time urged Hamas to disband to pave the way for a Palestinian state.
CARE’s primary healthcare centre provides malnutrition screening and supplements, alleviating hunger for children, pregnant and breastfeeding women.
Canada intends to recognise a Palestinian state at the United Nations in September under certain conditions, Prime Minister Mark Carney has said.
Mr Carney told reporters that the planned move was predicated on the Palestinian Authority’s commitment to reforms, including commitments to fundamentally reform its governance and to hold general elections in 2026.
Hamas must play no part in the elections.
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has said the United Nations, rather than Israel, is to blame for hunger in Gaza.
Huckabee told Newsmax on Tuesday that the UN has not distributed lifesaving food supplies in Gaza and Hamas is also interfering.
“The UN, unfortunately, wouldn’t help,” Huckabee said. “They had 900 trucks full of food, sitting undelivered, sitting in the sun, rotting.”
“What I will tell you is the reason those problems exist is not because Israel is being unkind and unfair,” he said. “It’s because Hamas has made life a hellhole for the people who are trying to live there.”
The demand by Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt that the terrorists in control of Gaza put down their arms and leave is a strong diplomatic move – but where are they supposed to go? History suggests that expelling terrorists rarely ends well, says Mark Almond:
In an unprecedented move, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt have for the first time urged Hamas to disband to pave the way for a Palestinian state.
They signed a statement condemning the October 7 attacks and told Hamas to surrender control, along with 14 other countries, including Britain and France.
In the context of ending the war in Gaza, Hamas must end its rule in Gaza and hand over its weapons to the Palestinian Authority, with international engagement and support, in line with the objective of a sovereign and independent Palestinian State.
US special envoy Steve Witkoff will travel to Israel on Thursday to discuss the next steps to address the situation in Gaza, a US official has confirmed.
President Donald Trump said on Monday he expects food centres to be set up in order to feed more people in Gaza, where starvation has begun to take hold.
The US official told Reuters that Witkoff will meet with officials “to discuss next steps in addressing the situation in Gaza.”
When I asked my sister in Gaza what she thought of Keir Starmer’s announcement, she laughed – because it means we only gain statehood if we continue to be killed, says Ahmed Najar:
Benjamin Netanyahu has issued a furious response after Sir Keir Starmer pledged to recognise Palestine unless Israel takes urgent steps to end the war in Gaza, accusing the prime minister of “appeasing terrorists”.
Responding on social media, the Israeli prime minister said: “Starmer rewards Hamas’s monstrous terrorism and punishes its victims.”
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Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff travelling for talks to Israel today “may also travel to Gaza”, the White House confirmed to The Independent’s Andrew Feinberg.
Witkoff is expected to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
It will be his first trip to Israel in almost three months.
“The president wants to know more about what the humanitarian situation in Gaza is in order to know how to get more assistance to civilians in Gaza,” one US official told Axios.
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