Joly hosts Mideast ministers in Ottawa to discuss Israel-Hamas war

The Canadian Press A group of foreign ministers from the Palestinian Authority, Saudi Arabia and Turkey is in Ottawa today for a quietly planned meeting with Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly to discuss attempts to end the Israel-Hamas war. Joly is working with her Middle Eastern counterparts to see how countries such as Canada can help efforts to secure peace for Palestinians and Israelis, after Hamas militants launched a deadly rampage in Israel on Oct. 7. The delegation calls itself the Arab-Islamic Extraordinary Summit and it normally includes Jordan, though Joly’s office says that country needed to send its foreign…