{"id":174480,"date":"2026-08-19T19:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T19:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/174480\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T19:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T19:05:09","slug":"canada-pledges-50m-aid-to-lebanon-and-condemns-israeli-unlawful-invasion-politics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/174480\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada pledges $50m aid to Lebanon and condemns Israeli \u2018unlawful invasion\u2019 | Politics News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canada official condemns Israel\u2019s \u2018invasion\u2019 of Lebanon, calls for sovereignty as aid pledged to the crisis-hit nation.<\/p>\n

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Canada\u2019s secretary of state for international development, Randeep Sarai, visited Lebanon to announce new humanitarian aid, condemning what he called Israel\u2019s \u201cunlawful invasion\u201d of Lebanon.<\/p>\n

During his visit, Sarai stated that Beirut should govern its own space. He also announced new programmes Canada is launching to support Lebanese families affected by the conflict, raising its total assistance to Lebanon this year to more than $50m.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOur commitment is long-term, and we\u2019re there for Lebanon,\u201d said Sarai, who visited shelters housing people displaced by the war and Syrian refugees during his visit.<\/p>\n

Amid the escalation between Israel and Lebanon in March, Canada warned<\/a> on March 25 that Lebanese sovereignty and territorial integrity \u201cmust not be violated\u201d and strongly condemned plans by Israeli forces to occupy southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n

As part of the US-mediated framework agreement signed in late June, \u201cpilot zones\u201d were designed to return small areas in southern Lebanon from Israeli forces to the Lebanese army.<\/p>\n

\"BuildingsBuildings hit by Israeli strikes lie in ruins in Zawtar al-Sharqiyah, Lebanon as seen from Zawtar al-Gharbiya, one of the designated pilot zones under the ceasefire agreement between Lebanon and Israel, from which Israeli forces have withdrawn, August 5, 2026 [Stringer\/EPA]<\/p>\n

In late July, the Lebanese Armed Forces accused<\/a> Israel of obstructing its efforts to take over control of security in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n

The war has killed more than 4,000 people and has caused widespread destruction across Lebanon. The United Nations says<\/a> that about 360,000 people are displaced as a result of the latest conflict.<\/p>\n

Home to a large Lebanese diaspora, Canada has given Lebanon about $575m in assistance in the past 10 years, Sarai said.<\/p>\n

Sarai also met Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, who promised to reinstate state authority across Lebanon and to implement reforms to fight corruption.<\/p>\n

Israeli officials said they will not pull out of Lebanon until Hezbollah is disarmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada official condemns Israel\u2019s \u2018invasion\u2019 of Lebanon, calls for sovereignty as aid pledged to the crisis-hit nation. Published…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,1654,821,55547,3427,587,116,113,438],"class_list":["post-174480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-hezbollah","tag-israel","tag-israel-attacks-lebanon","tag-lebanon","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}