Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated that Canada supports "humanitarian truce" in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement, but he has maintained his stance against calling for a ceasefire.

“We must remain committed to prioritizing the protection of innocents and the release of hostages. We are open and support the idea of humanitarian truces to allow necessary resources to reach civilians,” said the Liberal Prime Minister yesterday upon his arrival at the House of Commons after a meeting with his government.

However, Trudeau clarified, as the question period was about to begin, that what he is calling for is "not a ceasefire."

This was preceded by his statement that his government's priority is “the ongoing protection of innocent civilians and the release of hostages.”

Additionally, Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly posted Trudeau's request on her account on "X" (previously "Twitter").

She followed this with a post stating: “(the person) civilian is a civilian. More humanitarian aid must be allowed into Gaza and Canadians (stranded in the sector) must be able to leave. That is why we demand that a humanitarian truce be considered in the hostilities.”

Joly then deleted this post and called for “humanitarian truces.”

Since the beginning of the current rounds of conflict between Israel and Hamas, Israeli strikes have resulted in the deaths of approximately 6,550 people in the Gaza Strip controlled by the Islamist movement, including more than 2,700 children, and injured about 17,450 others, according to the Ministry of Health of the movement's government.

The residents of Gaza are also facing severe shortages of food, water, and fuel, with more than a million of them forced to flee within the densely populated area of about 365 square kilometers, which is home to approximately 2.3 million people.

It is noteworthy that the current round of conflict began on October 7 when hundreds of Hamas fighters launched an attack on southern Israel, resulting in the deaths of around 1,400 people, most of whom were civilians, and taking more than 200 people into the Gaza Strip as hostages.

In Ottawa, the Conservative Party stated in a press release that it also supports "temporary truces" in military activities.

These truces allow, according to the official opposition party in the House of Commons, the delivery of food, water, medicine, and other forms of humanitarian aid to civilians in the Gaza Strip through humanitarian corridors, and they also allow Canadian citizens and other foreign nationals to leave the sector.

“We support temporary truces for these humanitarian reasons while continuing to recognize that Israel has the right to defend itself and take actions to eliminate the threat posed by Hamas. Everyone must respect these temporary truces,” wrote the Conservative Party's spokesman for foreign affairs, MP Michael Chong.