REPORT: Canada Uninterrupted Flow of Arms Delivery to Israel Exposed

For the first time, complementary shipping records along with government data offer the most comprehensive public overview to date of Canada’s military assistance for Israel’s offensive on Gaza—contradicting ongoing assertions that Canada had ceased sending arms to Israel. A new report featuring the research by four NGOs, including World Beyond War, the Palestinian Youth Movement, Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME), and Independent Jewish Voices Canada, exposes the concealed truth regarding Canada’s official remarks on arms exports to Israel, uncovering a deliberate if not systematic deception that has facilitated the transfer of Canadian-manufactured weapons straight into one of the most lethal military offensives in contemporary history.

REPORT: Exposing Canadian military exports to Israel
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Canada’s covert arms dealings with Israel have finally come to light: The report reveals the incriminating evidence—numerous shipments, hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition—and the Canadian government’s tangled web of deceit that has hidden its involvement in fueling genocide in Gaza. Since October 2023, the Canadian government has consistently obscured and misrepresented the true nature and scale of Canada’s arms exports to Israel. Officials have minimised the deadly nature of the exported goods, attempted to disguise ongoing shipments by pausing new permit approvals, and made inconsistent and contradictory statements about having limited or even halted arms exports – all in an effort to hide Canada’s involvement in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. However, despite these attempts to create a facade of having addressed Canada’s complicity, this report uncovers that a variety of Canadian-made military products have continued to be sent directly to Israel over the last 21 months, breaching both Canadian and international law.

The Canadian government firmly refuted the report’s accusations — asserting that it has not permitted arms shipments to Israel since January 2024. However, Israeli import statistics and publicly accessible shipping records seriously challenge the government’s contention. In 2024, Global Affairs Canada (GAC) granted just two permits to Israel—data from the Canadian government indicates that Israel ranked as Canada’s fourth-largest buyer of military equipment that year, utilising 164 permits. At the same time, information from the Israel Tax Authority reveals that there were seven imports of Canadian products from March to June 2025.

IMAGE: A screenshot of Israel Tax Authority data showing seven importations of Canadian goods between March and June 2025, all under the HS code ‘arms and ammunition.’ (Source: Israel Tax Authority)

According to an April 2025 report from “Justice for all Canada“, Canada is required to cease its export of military goods and technology to nations engaged in human rights abuses. Canada ratified the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) on June 19, 2019. Section 6(3) of the Treaty forbids the transfer of military equipment (including conventional arms, munitions, and parts/components) if such items would be utilised in the perpetration of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, or serious violations of the Geneva Conventions. According to Canada’s Export and Import Permits Act (EIPA), the Minister of Foreign Affairs is prohibited from granting a military export permit if there exists a significant risk that the items could be employed to commit or facilitate:

a) Serious breaches of international human rights or humanitarian law.
b) Serious acts of violence against women and children.
c) Actions that threaten peace and security, among other limitations.

Given the increasing global consensus that Israel’s actions constitute genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, there is a compelling argument that the ongoing provision of military equipment to Israel is forbidden by both the ATT and the EIPA, due to the substantial likelihood that such equipment is being utilised in contravention of international law.

DOCUMENT: United Nations Arms Trade Treaty signed by Canada
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Unfortunately, this report verifies that things are not as they appear in our beloved Canada, and strongly suggests that ‘The Great White North’ has been actively supporting Israel in its capacity to perpetrate war crimes, engage in genocide, and maintain its occupation of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). Truthout has the story…

IMAGE: An Israeli artillery unit fires toward targets in the Gaza Strip, at the Israeli Gaza border, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. ( Source: AP Photo/Yonatan Sindel)

Jillian Kestler D’Amours reports for TRUTHOUT…

Report Slams Canada’s “Systematic Deception” Over Weapons Transfers to Israel

Activists say the government is misleading the public as Canadian weapons flow to Israel despite pledged restrictions.

Rights advocates in Canada are accusing the government of misleading the public by allowing huge amounts of weapons to be sent to Israel despite a pledge to curtail such transfers.

In a new report issued on July 29, a coalition of advocacy groups released new details about the scope of Canadian-made arms exports to Israel amid the country’s war on the Gaza Strip. Using commercial shipping and Israeli import data, the report found that at least 47 shipments of military-related components were sent from Canadian weapons manufacturers to Israeli arms companies between October 2023 and July 2025.

Another 391 shipments containing bullets, military equipment, weapons parts, aircraft components and communication devices were exported to Israel between October 2023 and June 2025, the report said, citing Israeli Tax Authority data. More than 421,000 bullets also were exported to Israel since the country’s bombardment of Gaza began, including a single shipment of 175,000 that was sent in April of this year.

That’s only a few months after the Canadian government said it was opposed to Canadian-made weapons being used in Gaza, where Israeli forces have killed tens of thousands of Palestinians.

Rachel Small, the Canada lead at World Beyond War, one of the groups behind the report, told Truthout that the findings expose “one of the biggest propaganda campaigns in Canadian foreign policy in many decades”.

“What we’ve seen over the past 21 months is, over and over again, Liberal [government] ministers standing in parliament, making public statements, claiming that Canada had paused or restricted or limited or was no longer sending arms to Israel,” Small told Truthout in an interview.

“And while Palestinian families were literally burying their children [in Gaza] … we now know that fighter jet parts literally flew from Halifax to Israel on Air Canada flights, hidden in the cargo underneath passenger seats,” Small said, adding, “What this report reveals is not bureaucratic oversight; what this looks like is systematic deception. It makes Canada directly complicit in what scholars and organisations all agree is a genocide.”

Pressure to Suspend Exports

The report’s findings come as Israel faces a fresh wave of global condemnation over its blockade of Gaza, which has led to a starvation crisis across the bombarded coastal enclave.

According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, nearly 150 Palestinians have died of hunger since the war began in October 2023, including dozens in recent days.

More than half of those casualties are children, and the United Nations has warned that the number of starvation-linked deaths could rapidly rise unless aid is allowed into the territory in a sustained way.

“What this report reveals is not bureaucratic oversight; what this looks like is systematic deception. It makes Canada directly complicit in what scholars and organisations all agree is a genocide.”

But long before Israel’s escalation of its blockade in March, people around the world had been calling on their governments to stop sending weapons to Israel that could be used in deadly attacks on Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

In Canada, Palestinian rights advocates and other civil society groups demanded an arms embargo against Israel and called on the government to uphold its obligations under the UN Arms Trade Treaty.

That pact stipulates that signatories cannot send arms to a country when they have knowledge that those weapons could be used in war crimes, genocide, and attacks on civilians, among other violations of international law.

In March 2024, Canada’s parliament passed a non-binding motion urging the government to suspend further arms sales to Israel. As pressure continued to mount, in September of last year, then-Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly announced that the government had not approved any new export permits for Israel since January 8, 2024.

Joly said Ottawa had suspended “around 30” existing permits. She also said the government was opposed to a planned sale by the United States of Canadian-made weapons parts to Israel that was made public just a few weeks earlier.

“Our policy is clear: We will not have any form of arms or parts of arms be sent to Gaza, period,” Joly told reporters at the time.

Millions in Arms Sent in 2024

Still, human rights advocates immediately questioned why the government didn’t suspend all permits that had been granted for weapons destined for Israel.

The report also noted that, under a decades-old defence pact between Canada and the U.S., most Canadian-made weapons and weapons parts do not need permits to be exported to the country’s southern neighbor. That has created what some experts have described as a black hole in terms of reporting requirements — and raised concerns that Canadian weapons components could end up in Israel if they are shipped via the U.S.

In fact, in March, anti-war group Project Ploughshares reported that a Canadian Crown corporation — a government contracting agency — had signed a contract in September 2024 with the U.S. Department of Defense to provide artillery propellants used to launch explosive 155 mm shells that will be sent to Israel.

“This agreement was finalised while the intensive bombardment of Gaza continued,” Project Ploughshares noted, as well as after Canada announced it was suspending weapons exports to Israel.”

Tuesday’s report focused on direct military exports from Canada to Israel, not weapons that reach Israel via the U.S. Canada’s foreign affairs department, Global Affairs Canada, did not immediately respond to Truthout’s request for comment on the allegations that it is misleading the Canadian public on weapons exports to Israel, or on its general policy on such transfers.

The government’s own data shows that Canada exported $13.8 million ($18.9 million Canadian) in direct military supplies and technology to Israel last year.

The weapons were authorised for transfer through 164 permits issued before the January 8 freeze, the government said.

“Global Affairs Canada’s approach since January 8, 2024, has been to not issue permits and to suspend a limited number of export permits for military items destined for Israel,” the ministry said in its report on 2024 exports. “These suspensions allow for further review into whether the authorised items could be used in the ongoing conflict in a manner inconsistent with Canada’s foreign policy objectives.”

Two-Way Arms Embargo

Tuesday’s report calls on the Canadian government to impose a two-way arms embargo that would cancel all existing arms export permits from Canada and prevent Canada from importing weapons from Israel.

That’s because advocates say the Canadian government should not be buying weapons marketed as “battle-tested” on Palestinians or providing profits to Israeli arms manufacturers.

The report also urges Canada to end indirect weapons transfers to Israel through the U.S., including by requiring “end-use assurances” that no arms sent to the U.S. will end up in Israel. Corey Balsam, national coordinator of Independent Jewish Voices Canada, another one of the groups involved in the report, said arms embargoes are tools the Canadian government has used before in other circumstances.

“I think the government recognises that it has a responsibility to stop the arms [to Israel], and that’s why they’ve taken some limited measures. But those measures are obviously insufficient,” Balsam told Truthout.

“We’ve grown up with this idea of never again post-Holocaust, and that’s something that we hear politicians in Canada repeating,” he said. “And here we are, just letting this happen, and worse, actually contributing. It’s really shameful.”

Balsam added that “if Canada really supports international law and human rights, it needs to be applied across the board”, including to its ally, Israel.

Small also said Canada is at a crossroads.

“I think they are really going to have to choose whether they’re going to continue to try to hide the Canada-Israel arms trade … or whether they’re going to take action and actually stop the flow of these weapons,” Small said.

“We’re not asking them to move mountains,” she added. “It’s the bare minimum to [ask them to] stop Canada from being deeply complicit in what I would say is one of the greatest moral crises of our time.”

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