Carney says Israel’s plan to take over Gaza City threatens Palestinians and hostages
By Canadian Press on August 8, 2025.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday Israeli’s plan to take over Gaza City will worsen the humanitarian crisis in the enclave and threaten the lives of hostages still held by Hamas — but did not say whether Canada is considering sanctions on Israel.
“We are working on multiple fronts to try to bring a level of stability to the region, then security, then peace to the region,” Carney said at a press conference on a military base in Trenton, Ont.
Israel’s cabinet approved a plan Friday to take control of Gaza City. The country’s foreign ministry said the plan is not to hold Palestinian territory long-term but rather to rout Hamas.
The United Nations has called the move a dangerous escalation and warns it likely would require a large ground invasion and the displacement of tens of thousands of civilians.
The UN Security Council is scheduled to hold an emergency meeting Saturday afternoon to discuss Israel’s plans for a new ground operation.
The cabinet decision comes after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Israeli military would take complete control of the Palestinian territory.
Carney said taking over Gaza City is “wrong” and cited Canada’s calls for a ceasefire in Gaza and new governance without Hamas.
“This action is not going to contribute to an improvement in the humanitarian situation on the ground. It is going to put the lives of the hostages at greater risk rather than lessening it,” he said.
The prime minister said the plan to take Gaza City amounts to an “erosion of the possibility of a two-state solution.”
Carney added that Canada will continue to work closely with allies, including France and the U.K., to stabilize the situation in Gaza.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer urged Israel to reconsider, saying the expanded offensive would do nothing to end the conflict or secure the release of the remaining hostages.
“Our message is clear: a diplomatic solution is possible, but both parties must step away from the path of destruction,” Starmer said.
France condemned the plan “in the strongest possible terms.” In a statement from its foreign affairs ministry, France said it “reiterates its firm opposition to any plan for the occupation of the Gaza Strip and the forced displacement of its population.”
The ministry said “such actions would constitute further serious violations of international law and would lead to an absolute dead end.”
France, which has been pushing for the two-state solution, said Israel’s plan would undermine the “legitimate aspirations of the Palestinians to live in peace in a viable, sovereign and contiguous State, and pose a threat to regional stability.”
Germany said Friday it would not authorize exports of military equipment that could be used in Gaza, a policy similar to one Canada has had in place since last year.
— With files from The Associated Press.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 8, 2025.
Dylan Robertson and David Baxter, The Canadian Press
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The Palestinians have mounted a massive propaganda campaign that has misled the world! So many sheep including our government!
While Israel has been contantly and falsely blamed with media allowing the spread of false propaganda we fail to go after Hamas, who has broke almost every part of Article 3 of the Geneva Convetnion, with impunity and is why the Israeli’s continue to fight for the remaining hostages who have been in captivity for 1 year and 10 months in suffering!
United Nations – Human Rights
Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
Part I: GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 3
In the case of armed conflict not of an international character occurring in the territory of one of the High Contracting Parties, each party to the conflict shall be bound to apply, as a minimum, the following provisions:
1. Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all circumstances be treated humanely, without any adverse distinction founded on race, colour, religion or faith, sex, birth or wealth, or any other similar criteria.
To this end the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever with respect to the above-mentioned persons:
(a) Violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture;
(b Taking of hostages;
(c) Outrages upon personal dignity, in particular, humiliating and degrading treatment;
(d) The passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous judgment pronounced by a regularly constituted court affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples.
2. The wounded and sick shall be collected and cared for.
An impartial humanitarian body, such as the International Committee of the Red Cross, may offer its services to the Parties to the conflict.
The Parties to the conflict should further endeavour to bring into force, by means of special agreements, all or part of the other provisions of the present Convention.
The application of the preceding provisions shall not affect the legal status of the Parties to the conflict.
Carney you are a fool and pro-Hamas by your statements and actions!
Hamas is starving to death the hostages! Did you not see the video released by Hamas? Fat Hamas terrorists sit meters away from the starving hostages, well fed Palestinians, while the hostages mimic pictures of the Holocaust!
Your support for Hamas has prolonged the war and Canadian tax dollars have helped fund Hamas and helped build the tunnels in which the hostages are being held! You are so naive! So misinformed!
What do you know? Canada has all but lost our country after poor leadership under the Liberals and you have bankrupt us, and we have never being in an existential fight from all sides as Israel! We cannot even protect Canada because you have bankrupt the military for decades and thought the US would always protect us!
You and the UN failed Israel who made pleas over the last 2 decades to stop the terrorist training of children in schools under UNRWA where they learned to hate and kill Jews for the last 25 years.
You and the UN failed Israel! The world failed Israel and now Israel must do what is needed just to survive! The hostages were not prisoners of war, they were kidnapped from their homes and jobs in Israel and taken to Gaza where they have been raped, beaten, tortured and starved! The animals hold attacked the Israeli settlements and the music festival on October 7th are nothing more than demons from Hell who do not deserve to live! Perhaps you need to watch the videos of the war crimes in this communities and the music festival so see the aftermath, the horror that only possessed beings could perpetrate!
For a world leader, you are so misinformed and an idiot in my mind!