Canada joins other countries in recognizing a Palestinian state ahead of UN General Assembly

Canada recognized a Palestinian state on Sunday, despite opposition from the U.S, with the hope it paves the way for peace based on two states living side by side.

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Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on the social platform X that Canada had recognized a Palestinian state. Britain and Australia also announced that they were doing the same on Sunday.

"The current Israeli government is working methodically to prevent the prospect of a Palestinian state from ever being established," Carney said in a statement.

"It has pursued an unrelenting policy of settlement expansion in the West Bank, which is illegal under international law. Its sustained assault in Gaza has killed tens of thousands of civilians, displaced well over one million people, and caused a devastating and preventable famine in violation of international law. It is now the avowed policy of the current Israeli government that 'there will be no Palestinian state'."

Carney had already said in late July he would do so as many Western countries are increasingly dismayed by the intensifying war in Gaza.