Mideast group, meeting in Ottawa, discussed security for Palestinians and Israelis, Joly says

A group of foreign ministers from the Palestinian Authority, Saudi Arabia and Turkey met Saturday in Ottawa with Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to discuss the Israel-Hamas war. The quietly planned meeting focused on ways countries could help efforts to secure peace for Palestinians and Israelis after Hamas militants launched a deadly rampage in Israel on Oct. 7. Joly hosted the delegation, which calls itself the Arab-Islamic Extraordinary Summit. The group normally includes Jordan, though Joly’s office says that country needed to send its foreign minister on other business. The group is not a joint…