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Palestinian children walk to school past the rubble of a destroyed building as the academic year begins in Bureij in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday.EYAD BABA/AFP/Getty Images
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is pledging $100-million in new aid for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
The funding includes $80-million in humanitarian aid, while the rest is development funding for security initiatives, including top-up funding for a multi-year project to train Palestinian police.
Carney, who announced the funding on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, says the money is meant to help bring about a two-state solution.
Carney says Palestinians in Gaza are experiencing “immense human suffering” while Israelis face “existential threats from Hamas and from Iran and its proxies.”
Ottawa has pledged more than $600-million in aid for Palestinian civilians since the Israel-Gaza war started in October, 2023.
New documents tabled in Parliament this week list the damage done to dozens of Canadian-funded aid projects by Israel’s military and settlers.