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Canada pledges $71m in aid for Palestinians as Western leaders warn over E1 settlement plan

Mark Carney announced C$100 million ($71m) in assistance for Palestinians at the UN General Assembly, alongside planned trade restrictions on goods from Israeli settlements.

By Sarah Whitfield · · 2 min read

Canada has pledged 100 million Canadian dollars ($71m) in international assistance for Palestinians, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Tuesday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.

Eighty per cent of the funding will go to direct humanitarian aid, with the remainder allocated to peace and security capacity-building, including Canada’s multiyear programme to train Palestinian police in the occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera reported. Since the start of the war in Gaza, Ottawa has committed more than C$600m ($426m) in aid for Palestinian civilians.

Carney warned that Israel’s endorsement of the E1 settlement plan east of occupied East Jerusalem poses “a direct threat to peace”, and confirmed Canada will bring forward trade restrictions targeting goods produced in Israeli settlements — a move already announced earlier this month by 12 states including the UK and France.

He said he would co-host an evening meeting with the British and French prime ministers and UN Secretary-General António Guterres on the two-state solution and the implementation of Security Council Resolution 2720 in Gaza.

French President Emmanuel Macron used his UNGA speech on Tuesday to attack the restrictions on aid to Gaza. “There are those who claim that peace has been achieved, but this has not opened the way for humanitarian aid deliveries. This sight is shameful. Shame on all of us,” he said. “But what is our credibility worth if we remain inactive in the face of Gaza?”

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham told delegates that failure to deliver a two-state solution would “corrode trust” in politicians, noting the UK has banned trade with illegal Israeli settlements because the E1 expansion is “a deliberate attempt to block a two-state solution”.

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