In a tweet on Twitter, Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said, "I welcomed my counterparts from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the Palestinian Authority in Canada for an important discussion on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the path towards lasting peace in the Middle East, with the establishment of a Palestinian state living side by side with Israel." 

Today, Saturday, an Arab and Islamic delegation discussed with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip and ways to stop it.

This came during a meeting between the foreign ministers of the member states of the contact group formed by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Arab League, with Trudeau, according to a post by the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the "X" platform.

It added that Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and the ministers of the "Riyadh Summit" delegation visited Canada and met with its Prime Minister Trudeau and Foreign Minister Melanie Joly.

The "Riyadh Summit" delegation discussed during its meeting with Trudeau ways to "stop the ongoing war in Gaza and achieve a permanent ceasefire."

Members of the ministerial delegation demanded the international community to act quickly and take responsibility towards protecting innocent civilians from the killing machine practiced by the Israeli occupation forces, pointing out that talks about the future of Gaza and the Palestinian cause should come after the immediate ceasefire and the de-escalation of unjustified military escalation. 

Delegation members confirmed the importance of taking serious and urgent steps to ensure securing relief corridors to deliver urgent humanitarian, food, and medical aid to the Gaza Strip, expressing their rejection of restricting the entry of humanitarian aid quickly and safely. 

The delegation members stressed the importance of creating serious political conditions for the establishment of a Palestinian state on the lines of June 4, 1967, according to relevant international resolutions, expressing their rejection of the fragmentation of the Palestinian cause and the discussion of the future of the Gaza Strip independently of the Palestinian cause.

The delegation was formed by a decision of the Arab Islamic summit in Riyadh on November 11 last to discuss ways to stop the war.

Since October 7, the Israeli army has been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip, which, until Saturday evening, left 17,700 martyrs, 48,780 injured, most of them children and women, huge destruction in infrastructure, and an "unprecedented humanitarian disaster," according to official Palestinian and UN sources.