Report Confirms Canada Continues to Export Weapons to Israel in Breach of International Law
Yara Shoufani (centre)
speaks at Ottawa press conference July 29, 2025
On July 29, the Arms Embargo Now coalition issued a report based on research done by the Palestinian Youth Movement and World Beyond War which exposes the reality of how Canada has been supplying arms and ammunition to Israel while it carries out a genocide trying to exterminate the Palestinians. The report gives the lie to repeated claims from the Carney Liberals and the previous Trudeau Liberals that Canada has cut off arms exports to Israel.
The report,
entitled Exposing Canadian Military
Exports to Israel, notes: "Using two complementary
methodologies never before applied to track Canadian arms
exports --
commercial shipping data tracing direct shipments from
Canadian arms manufacturers to Israel through July 2025, and
the Israeli Tax Authority (ITA) import data from October 2023 to
July
2025 -- this report exposes a vastly different reality than
the government claims -- a continuous, massive pipeline of
Canadian weapons flowing directly to Israel."
The report contains records of specific shipments of weapons and military components -- built in factories across this country, shipped using Canadian highways, airports, ports and rails, and used in F-35 fighter jets, drones, and bombs that are massacring Palestinians.
The authors of the report underscore that since the U.S./Israeli genocidal war on Gaza began in October 2023, Gaza's population of more than two million people have been starved, bombarded, displaced, or killed and that Canada, as a signatory to the Geneva Conventions and Arms Trade Treaty, is legally obligated to uphold these international laws and stop the genocide, not perpetuate it.
Not only are Canada's weapons exports to Israel illegal under international law, they contravene the sustained demands of Canadians and Quebeckers to end Canada's complicity in the genocide, including economic, military and political support for the U.S./Israeli war on Gaza. The claims by the Carney and Trudeau Liberals to have stopped such arms exports are clearly meant to divert the movement from achieving its aims.
At a press conference held on Parliament Hill, July 29, to
release
the report, Yara Shoufani of the Palestinian Youth Movement said
that since October 7, 2023, Canadian politicians have
deliberately lied
to Canadians about Canada's role in supplying weapons for Israel
to
carry out the genocide
against Palestinians. She pointed out that despite claims to the
contrary, the flow of military equipment to Israel has been
uninterrupted and that ammunition and weapons components have
even been
flown to Israel as cargo on commercial planes carrying
civilians,
unbeknownst to the passengers.
Shoufani called on the Canadian government to stop misleading
Canadians
with
"vague statements about permit regulations" and implement a
two-way
arms embargo immediately as a contribution to ending the
genocide.
To view the report, click here.
This article was published in
Volume 55
Number 21 - August 3, 2025
Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/Tmlm2025/Articles/TS552113.HTM
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