Canada to give $50M in aid to Palestinians in Gaza
Global News
More Canadian funds will help provide food, water, emergency medical assistance, protection services in Gaza, officials say, while ensuring that none of it goes to Hamas.
Canada will provide an additional $50 million in humanitarian aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Global Affairs Canada announced Saturday.
The aid will be in addition to $10 million designated last week.
In a statement, GAC said the funding will help provide food, water, emergency medical assistance, protection services and other life-saving assistance, while ensuring that none of it goes to Hamas.
“It is critical that Palestinian civilians in Gaza who need life-saving assistance receive it as soon as possible,” Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly said in a statement.
“Canada will continue to work with its trusted and experienced humanitarian partners to make sure this funding reaches those who are suffering.”
Joly and International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen are currently in Cairo, Egypt, for a peace summit concerning the Israel-Hamas conflict.
In a statement Saturday, both said they would be meeting their counterparts and foreign officials, and Joly will also meet with staff at the Canadian Embassy in Cairo to discuss aiding Canadians in the region, including in the Gaza Strip.
On Friday, GAC said evacuating Canadians from Gaza is reliant on a humanitarian corridor opening at the Rafah crossing into Egypt. That crossing opened Saturday, with 20 trucks loaded with essential aid entering Gaza, although there were 200 total stationed at the crossing.