Canada joins

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced On the social platform x Canada has recognized a Palestinian state. Britain and Australia also announced that they were doing the same on Sunday.

Carney had already said in late July that he would do so because many Western countries are increasingly panic due to the intense war in Gaza.

The movements come before United Nations General Assembly This week, where other countries, including Australia and FranceIt is also He is expected to know a Palestinian state.

The official recognition of the Palestinian state was angered by Western countries Israel and the United States, That the recognition encourages extremists and rewards Hamas, the group that led on October 7, 2023, is attacked to southern Israel, which sparked the war.

US President Donald Trump Canada has already threatenedHe said that the announcement of Canada “will make it very difficult for the United States to reach a trade agreement with its northern neighbor.

The pressure has increased to officially get to know the Palestinian state since then French President Emmanuel Macron He announced this summer that his country will become the first major Western power to do this in September.

Macron is An official announcement France’s recognition of a Palestinian state on Monday at a United Nations conference in New York, the presidency of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, at the beginning of the United Nations General Assembly.

More than 145 countries already recognize a Palestinian state, including more than ten in Europe.

Carney has already said that Canada is working with other states “to maintain the possibility of a solution of the two countries, not to allow facts on the ground, deaths on the ground, settlements on the ground, and sources on the ground, to some extent to the extent that this is not possible.”

The government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects a solution from the two countries.

Canada has long supported the idea of ​​being an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel, but said that recognition should come as part of a two -state solution to the conflict.

The Israeli bombing has been killed over the past 23 months More than 65100 people In Gaza, according to the Ministry of Health in the region, vast areas of the tape were destroyed, about 90 % of the population were received and caused a catastrophic humanitarian crisis, with experts saying that Gaza City is suffering from starvation.

There are still forty -eight hostages in Gaza, with less than half believed they are still alive. The militants, led by Hamas, stormed in southern Israel October 7, 2023About 1,200 people were killed, mostly civilians, and kidnapped 251 others.

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