Ottawa – Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand and her 24 counterparts abroad have signed a joint statement, stating that “the war in Gaza should now end,” while Israel has been called to prevent Israeli from displacing Palestinians.
Signer – Foreign Minister of France, Japan and UK includes equality, preparation and crisis management for the Foreign Minister and European Union Commissioner – called Israel’s aid distribution system “dangerous”.
The ministers also condemned Hamas to continue the hostages caught from Israel in the October 7, 2023 attack and called for his immediate release.
He said that it is “terrible that more than 800 Palestinians have been killed demanding assistance.”
The Death toll is based on data released by the United Nations Human Rights Office and Hamas-Interested Health Ministry at Gaza.
“Citizens’ suffering in Gaza has reached a new depth. Israeli government’s assistance distribution model is dangerous, fuel instability and human dignity deprives ghazans. We condemn the drip feeding of aid and inhuman killing of citizens, including children, who demanded to meet their most basic needs of water and food,” the minister wrote.
The ministers reduced proposals by Israeli officials to focus the Palestinians in Gaza in a city.
“Permanent forced displacement is a violation of the International Human law,” notes the statement.
It also targets the proposed expansion of settlements in the Palestinian regions by the Israeli government, especially it wants to divide the West Bank from the East Jerusalem.
This will “severely weaken the two-state solution”, the statement states, given the increase in the manufacture of settlements, which is illegal illegal canada, at a time when “the violence against Palestinians has increased.”
Israeli’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Oren Marmorsstein said that Israel rejected the joint statement, called it “disconnected from reality” and said that it “sends a wrong message to Hamas.”
Mermorsstein wrote in a social media statement, “This statement fails to focus on the pressure on Hamas and fails to recognize Hamas’s role and responsibility for the situation. Hamas is the only party responsible for the continuation of war and suffering on both sides.”
“In these sensitive moments in the ongoing conversation, it is better to avoid such statements.”
Marmorastein said that Hamas is guilty of lack of agitation on only one ceasefire and release of hostages. He accused Hamas of “deliberately” growing stress and human damage at humanitarian aid stations.
The ministers who signed the statement have called for the Israeli government to raise all sanctions on assistance distribution and to securely and effectively to “enable United Nations and Human NGOs”.
Most of the food supply Israel has allowed to go to Gaza, Gaza at the Humanitarian Foundation, an American contractor supported by Israel. Witnesses and health officials say that since the group operations in late May, hundreds of Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli army fire trying to reach the help distribution sites.
Israel has blocked assistance for three months before installing GHF sites, effectively closed hundreds of sites that were operated by international agencies in Gaza.
Israel says that this step had to be taken to prevent help from reaching Hamas, who was selling significant supply and food to pay for their fighters. But United Nations agencies say that this was not happening to a great extent.
While the United States, Qatar and Egypt did not sign the letter, the ministers who signed, say they support the efforts of the three countries that interact on the ceasefire.
Apart from the US, Germany was the only other G7 country that did not support the statement.
The signators said that they are ready to take further action to support the immediate ceasefire “and set up a political route for peace in the region.
– With files from Associated Press.
This report of Canadian Press was first published on 21 July 2025.
David Baxter, Canadian Press
