No more exports
Canada stops arms sales to Israel
March 20, 2024, 8:39 a.m
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According to government sources, Canada has not issued any permits for the export of lethal weapons to Israel since the outbreak of the war – but non-lethal weapons have also been banned since January. The country can no longer allow exports due to the local situation.
Canada has stopped supplying arms to Israel. The situation on site no longer allows the North American country to export weapons, government circles said. The arms sales permits issued by Canada since the start of the war between Israel and the Islamist Hamas five months ago only concerned the export of non-lethal weapons. There have been no exports since January. In the past, Israel has been a major recipient of Canadian arms exports.
The war in the Gaza Strip was triggered by Hamas’s unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7th, in which, according to Israeli information, around 1,160 people were killed and around 250 others were kidnapped as hostages in the Gaza Strip.
Since then, Israel has taken massive military action in the Gaza Strip. According to the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health, which cannot be independently verified, more than 31,800 people have been killed so far.
Most recently, Israel’s allies warned of an Israeli offensive in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, where hundreds of thousands of people have sought refuge from fighting in other parts of the coastal region.
US President Joe Biden recently increased pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in view of the planned large-scale Israeli ground offensive. However, Netanyahu was said to have told Biden “we are committed to completing the elimination of these battalions in Rafah, and there is no way to do this without a ground offensive.”