Ottawa – Palestinian Ambassador to Canada says that he feels that Ottawa is officially on the verge of recognizing the state for its people, as it also pays attention to the difficult language from Canada on Israel’s works in Gaza.
“Accountability means everything for the Palestinian people. We are all searching,” Mona Abumara said, which is at the end of its four -year tenure as the chief representative of the Palestinian General delegation in Canada.
“Canada could have done better and should do better.”
Abuamra said that in recent years, Canada’s approach to the situation in Palestinian regions has supported Israel to support Israel to “laugh without laughing”, funding small projects such as police training and development work.
“Originally, (this was) should be managed under that business,” he said. “But what we were seeing from Canada is that we should help to get rid of that business instead, so we can earn our money.”
For decades, Canada has supported the creation of a Palestinian country that exists peacefully with a safe Israel. In May 2024, Ottawa said that now it does not believe that recognizing the state of Palestinian can only happen after peace talks. Around that time, Ottawa stated that it was assessing what conditions needed to proceed with formal recognition.
In an interview with Canadian Press, Abumara said that Canada is now getting closer towards that formal recognition.
He cited a counseling program on 10 June for co-maintaining with Qatar and Mexico at the United Nations Headquarters, how to peacefully resolve the Israeli-Pilistine conflict and carry forward a two-state solution.
The event was considered part of the United Nations Conference organized by France and Saudi Arabia; The participating countries were expected to either recognize Palestine as a state or agree to do so. The organizers postponed the conference when the war began between Israel and Iran, and no new date was set.
Abuamara said that Canada had a “lot of conversations” with France and others, when the United Nations conference is finally taken closer to the recognition of the Palestinian kingdom.
“We are very close, (April federal) before the election, for recognition,” he said.
The Canadian press has asked the federal cabinet to comment but has not received any response.
Israel has pushed back on calls for the Palestinian state, saying that the states have divided leadership and run both Hamas and Fatah corrupt governments that refuse to hold elections and support terrorists.
Abuamara said that the Palestinian state will be set in stone for self -determination, “recognizing the state of Palestinian.
His work changed significantly on 7 October 2023, when Hamas militants attacked Israel, resulting in the most deadly massacre of the Jews since the Holocaust. Hamas and its colleagues killed 1,200 people in Israel, including soldiers, and 251 people hostage; They still hold around 50.
The attack inspired Israel to bomb Gaza. Hamas officials say the Israeli military action, including attacks on hospitals and refugee camps, has since killed about 60,000 Palestinians, including terrorists.
The Israel-Gaja conflict has staged a stressful protests on the Canadian roads and is a spike in hatred crimes targeting Jews. Meanwhile, Muslims and Arab Canadians are afraid of criticizing Israel’s military operations due to report potential backlash.
The war has also called for the recognition of Palestinian state. Spain, Ireland and Norway formally recognized a Palestinian state last year, cited by Israeli officials to enacted the Palestinian areas.
Abumara’s role is to speak for Palestinians in the Middle East, although he was appointed by a government, not only the West Bank control, not the Gaza Strip.
He said that his posting in Canada left him in the media and on academic panels due to lack of Palestinian voices. She said that she struggles to get direct meetings with Canadian government officials.
But he said that Prime Minister Mark Carney is using a strong language to criticize Israeli policies and tasks compared to his predecessor, Justin Trudeau.
“We have seen strong, clear statements since we took over the post of Carney Government,” he said. “There are less two sides, the criminal of crime is not less.”
She also cited Foreign Minister Anita Anand performed in May, describing Israel’s military campaign, “aggression against Gajan people in Palestinian and Palestine.” In those comments, the minister took unconventional steps citing “Palestine” instead of Palestinian areas.
Anand also said that Israel was using food as a political tool, by restricting humanitarian aid in Gaza.
Israeli officials raised the issue with the use of the bliss of the word “aggression” to describe a military campaign to neutralize the danger of Anand.
Abuamara said that it was fresh to see Canada to see violence against citizens in the Middle East as it often does for Ukrainians attacked by Russia.
“Canada only needs to stand by international law,” he said.
“It’s not about Palestine. It is about the international rules-based orders, about human rights, values ​​and principles.”
Canada is carrying on Israel for more accountability on several incidents in Gaza, in May, in May, during the humanistic evaluation of the Genin refugee camp, shots were fired after Israeli soldiers in the area around Canadian and other diplomats.
Canada called Israel’s ambassador after the incident and is still waiting for the results of an investigation.
Abuamra said that the lack of accountability to the incident shows how Palestinians feel when they level the allegations against Israeli soldiers.
He said, “This is what we want to know the Canadian government and Canadian people – this is what we have been living for decades. Israel is never wrong,” he said.
This report of Canadian Press was first published on 9 July 2025.
Dylan Robertson, Canadian Press
