The only way to avoid untold further civilian deaths and injuries in Gaza and to ensure the resumption of vital, life-saving humanitarian aid – two objectives the US says it shares – is for an immediate truce resumption which leads to a permanent ceasefire.
With a fragile humanitarian truce in place to allow for hostage and prisoner releases and somewhat increased aid to flow into Gaza, we must continue to call on our government to exert every effort for a full ceasefire now.
We all have a role to play in demanding that the Government of Canada support an immediate ceasefire and take other urgent actions to help stop the Gaza carnage and to secure the release and return of hostages.
We briefly update the grim military picture in Ukraine and then focus on the unimaginable suffering in Gaza, and our demand for Canada to commit to an immediate ceasefire, full humanitarian access to Gaza and the urgent release of hostages.
Canada’s duty under international humanitarian law is clear. Our government needs to urgently work for an immediate ceasefire, full humanitarian access to Gaza, a halt to any further arms exports to Israel and the release of all hostages.
We examine why the UN Security Council failed to pass a resolution addressing the horrific Gaza conflict, the success of the UN General Assembly in calling for an immediate humanitarian truce and the urgent need for western countries, including Canada, to stop shielding Israel from its ongoing grave breaches of international law.
