Ottawa— Canada’s PM Mark Carney has condemned Israel’s food blockade and urged it to allow the World Food Program (WFP) to work in Gaza. He stressed that food must not be used as a “political tool”.
“The UN World Food Program just announced that its food stocks in Gaza have run out because of the Israeli Government’s blockade — food cannot be used as a political tool,” Carney said on X as cited by Reuters.
The WFP said on Friday it had delivered its last remaining supplies to kitchens providing hot meals in Gaza and that the facilities were expected to run out of food in the coming days.
Starving Palestinians to death is part of the Israeli genocide war in Gaza along with indiscriminate airstriks that have killed at least 52,243 Palestinians and injured more than 117,639 mostly children and women, according to a statement released by Gaza’s Ministry of Health on Sunday.
“We will continue to work with our allies towards a permanent ceasefire and the immediate return of all hostages,” Carney added as cited by Reuters.
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he pushed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to allow food and medicine into the Gaza Strip.
Israel killed at least 51 Palestinians and wounded 115 more in the last 24 hours alone, and hundreds of thousands have been displaced by the occupying Israeli army in Gaza.
The WFP no humanitarian or commercial supplies had entered Gaza for more than seven weeks because all main border-crossing points were closed, the longest closure the Gaza Strip had ever faced.
Israel abandoned a ceasefire agreement on 18 March and resumed airstrikes on the already destroyed Gaza Strip killing more than 2,151 Palestinians. The Gaza government media office on Friday said that famine has become a reality in the enclave of 2.3 million people.
On 8 April at a rally in Calgary, Prime Minister Carney seemed to express agreement with a heckler who shouted that “Israel is enacting genocide in its war with Hamas” to which he responded by saying “thank you, I am aware, which why we have an arms embargo.”
As a result, he came under attack from Israel’s PM Netanyahu and Jewish groups and a day later Mr. Carney said he did not hear the word “genocide” and he was only “stating a fact in terms of” Canada’s decision to restrict arms sales to Israel.
On 8 April at a rally in Calgary, Carney seemed to express agreement with a heckler who shouted that “Israel is enacting genocide in its war with Hamas” to which responded by saying “thank you, I am aware, which why we have an arms embargo.”
A day later. Carney said he did not hear the word “genocide” and he was only “stating a fact in terms of” Canada’s decision to restrict arms sales to Israel.