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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 625

Israel-Canada relations

Smoke rises to the sky following an Israeli strike in Gaza City, June 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
June 3, 2025, 6:38 pm
Canadian authorities confirm opening probe last year into alleged war crimes in Gaza
Royal Canadian Mounted Police tells Toronto-based newspaper the investigation started in early 2024, but declines to offer any further details, findings
By ToI Staff
Left to right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on May 19, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90); Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a visit in Kingston upon Hull, England, March 13, 2025. (Oli Scarff/Pool via AP); France's President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris on May 7, 2025. (Michel Euler/Pool/AFP); Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during a rally in Toronto, on April 4, 2025. (Peter Power/AFP)
May 23, 2025, 1:13 pm
PM: Starmer, Macron, Carney ’emboldening Hamas,’ are on ‘wrong side of humanity, history’
‘When mass murderers, rapists, baby killers and kidnappers thank you, you’re on the wrong side of justice,’ says Netanyahu, after leaders of UK, France, and Canada issue joint statement
By ToI Staff
Left to right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on May 19, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90); Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a visit in Kingston upon Hull, England, March 13, 2025. (Oli Scarff/Pool via AP); France's President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris on May 7, 2025. (Michel Euler/Pool/AFP); Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during a rally in Toronto, on April 4, 2025. (Peter Power/AFP)
May 20, 2025, 12:56 am
UK, France, Canada warn of ‘concrete actions’ if Israel doesn’t halt war, boost aid
Statement calls on Hamas to release hostages, threatens sanctions over West Bank settlement expansion; 22 countries sign separate statement urging full resumption of aid
By Nava Freiberg, AFP and ToI Staff
Canadian Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre on April 12, 2025, in Ottawa, Canada. (Dave Chan / AFP)
April 13, 2025, 4:19 am
Canada’s Tory leader vows to deport foreigners for antisemitic crimes
‘We will bring in tougher laws to target vandalism, hate marches that break laws and violent attacks,’ Pierre Poilievre says
By AFP
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during a campaign rally in Toronto, on April 4, 2025. (Peter Power/AFP)
April 11, 2025, 3:21 am
Netanyahu slams Canadian PM for appearing to back protester’s Gaza ‘genocide’ claim
Mark Carney asserts he did not hear the word ‘genocide’ and was ‘stating a fact in terms of the arms restrictions’ that Canada has imposed on Israel
By Nava Freiberg
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau celebrates Passover with members of the Jewish community, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, April 23, 2024. (Adam Scotti / PMO)
January 6, 2025, 10:25 pm
Outgoing PM Trudeau lost confidence of much of Canada’s Jewish community
Jewish leaders decried his lack of action against soaring post-October 7 antisemitism, with synagogues and schools targeted, and failure to support Israel during war
By Andrew Lapin
Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly attends the 31st ASEAN Regional Forum at the 57th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) foreign ministers' meeting in Vientiane, Laos, on July 27, 2024. (Sai Aung Main/AFP)
September 11, 2024, 4:41 am
Canadian FM says she has recently suspended 30 permits for arm shipments to Israel
‘We won’t have any form of arms or parts of arms be sent to Gaza,’ says Melanie Joly, adding she ordered review of all weapons contracts with Israel and other countries
By AFP
Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly talks to the media during a press conference with her Cypriot counterpart (not pictured) on humanitarian aid for Gaza,at the 'Zenon' Coordination Centre in Larnaca, Cyprus, May 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
August 8, 2024, 7:06 pm
Canada to pull children of its diplomats out of Israel amid fears of Iranian attack
Ottawa approves temporary relocation of children and their guardians to a third country, days after warning citizens to avoid all travel to the region
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Israeli security forces at the scene of an attempted stabbing attack at the entrance to Netiv HaAsara, near the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, July 22, 2024. (Photo by Flash90)
July 22, 2024, 1:40 pm
Canadian citizen attempts terror stabbing at moshav near Gaza, is shot dead
IDF notes attacker arrived at Netiv Ha’asara through Israel, not from the Strip; witnesses report assailant shouted in English, ‘You’re murdering people in Gaza!’
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Jews attend a special prayer at the newly recognized Evyatar outpost, in the West Bank, July 7, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)
July 8, 2024, 10:22 pm
France and Canada pan Israel’s legalization of five new West Bank settlements
Other European states already slammed measures pushed by Smotrich to sanction Palestinian Authority, advance plans for thousands of West Bank homes
By Lazar Berman, Agencies and ToI Staff
Lehava chairman Benzi Gopstein (left) seen after a court hearing at Jerusalem District Court, on January 14, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Daniella Weiss takes part in a march to the Evyatar outspot, near the West Bank city of Nablus, on April 10, 2023. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)
June 27, 2024, 10:31 pm
Canada sanctions Israeli extremists, settler groups over violence against Palestinians
List of sanctioned individuals includes far-right leaders Bentzi Gopstein and Daniella Weiss; move latest made by Israeli allies to confront settler violence
By Lazar Berman
Activists protest against United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) outside their offices in Jerusalem, March 27, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 9, 2024, 5:16 pm
Relatives of October 7 victims file suit against Canadian resumption of UNRWA funding
Federal Court application says renewed funding for UNRWA ‘a grotesque violation of Canadian values’; families of Hamas victims ‘appalled and sickened’ by decision
By Jeremy Sharon
The victims of an April 1, 2024, IDF strike on a World Central Kitchen convoy in Gaza (Clockwise from top right): Saifeddin Issam Ayad Abutaha, Lalzawmi (Zomi) Frankcom, Damian Soból, Jacob Flickinger, James Kirby, James (Jim) Henderson and John Chapman. (World Central Kitchen/X)
April 3, 2024, 3:00 pm
Poland ups pressure on Israel after losing a citizen in bombing of Gaza aid workers
PM Tusk says ties tested after Netanyahu said such incidents ‘happen in war’; Israeli ambassador calls extremist Poles antisemites for accusing Israel of murder
By Agencies
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, talks with Canada's Foreign Minister Melanie Joly during the G20 foreign ministers meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
March 20, 2024, 2:35 pm
Daily Briefing Mar. 20: Day 166 – As Canada halts arms to Israel, who could follow?
Political correspondent Tal Schneider on Ottawa’s move, Gaza’s food crisis and Tzipi Livni at PM’s corruption trial; Ops and Blogs editor Miriam Herschlag discusses Purim debate
By ToI Staff
Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly speaks about hostage diplomacy at the Wilson Center in Washington, February 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
March 19, 2024, 11:54 pm
After non-binding motion, Canada to halt arms exports to Israel
FM slams Ottawa for ‘step that undermines Israel’s right to self-defense in the face of Hamas murderers,’ as Trudeau takes increasingly critical stance toward Jewish state
By ToI Staff
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