{"id":104241,"date":"2025-07-30T07:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T07:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/104241\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T07:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T07:41:09","slug":"canada-may-recognize-palestinian-state-source-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/104241\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada may recognize Palestinian state: source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The federal government is considering whether to recognize a Palestinian state if Israel doesn\u2019t agree to a ceasefire, a source told CTV News. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cabinet will meet tomorrow to discuss, but sources say no decision has been taken at this time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/world\/israel-hamas-war\/article\/starmer-says-uk-will-recognize-palestinian-state-unless-israel-agrees-to-a-ceasefire\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/world\/israel-hamas-war\/article\/starmer-says-uk-will-recognize-palestinian-state-unless-israel-agrees-to-a-ceasefire\/\">U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer<\/a> said Tuesday they would recognize a Palestinian state in September, unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire in Gaza, allow humanitarian aid into the conclave and commit to a long-term peace process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Starmer also said Hamas must release all the hostages, agree to a ceasefire, commit to disarmament and accept that they will play no part in the government of Gaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IsraeliPM\/status\/1950276639880872366\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IsraeliPM\/status\/1950276639880872366\">Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> criticized the move, saying it \u201crewards Hamas\u2019s monstrous terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Pressure has been mounting on western countries to formally recognize a Palestinian state since<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/world\/article\/french-president-macron-says-france-will-recognize-palestine-as-a-state\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/world\/article\/french-president-macron-says-france-will-recognize-palestine-as-a-state\/\"> French President Emmanuel Macron<\/a> announced last week his country will become the first major western power to do so in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/politics\/article\/carney-calls-israels-handling-of-humanitarian-aid-in-gaza-violation-of-international-law\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/politics\/article\/carney-calls-israels-handling-of-humanitarian-aid-in-gaza-violation-of-international-law\/\">Prime Minister Mark Carney<\/a> criticized Israel\u2019s handling of humanitarian aid in Gaza as \u201ca violation of international law,\u201d saying Canada condemns the Israeli government\u2019s failure to prevent the \u201crapidly deteriorating\u201d disaster in the region.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Canada condemns the Israeli government\u2019s failure to prevent the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian disaster in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s control of aid distribution must be replaced by comprehensive provision of humanitarian assistance led by international organizations. Many of these are\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mark Carney (@MarkJCarney) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkJCarney\/status\/1948536395347206522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIsrael\u2019s control of aid distribution must be replaced by comprehensive provision of humanitarian assistance led by international organizations,\u201d Carney said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cMany of these are holding significant Canadian-funded aid which has been blocked from delivery to starving civilians.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With files from CTV News\u2019 chief political correspondent Vassy Kapelos, CTV News\u2019 Hunter Crowther and The Associated Press<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The federal government is considering whether to recognize a Palestinian state if Israel doesn\u2019t agree to a ceasefire,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":103811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4717,2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-104241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114941059817879120","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}