Cañada Must Arrest Israeli War Criminals
Prime Minister Carney:
It is time for Canada to display some integrity in upholding international law, particularly when it comes to the most flagrant international scofflaw, Israel.
Up until now, Canada seems to have been supporting Israel’s genocide of Palestinians with supplies of weaponry and Israel’s criminal apartheid of Palestinians, along with its documented torture, rape, and organ theft with political cover and a refusal to condemn the most heinous crimes.
I believe I am speaking for the majority of Canadians who are appalled by Canada’s shameful support of Israeli criminals and, by its refusal to follow its obligations, making international law meaningless. Canada has legal obligations under many agreements of international law, including the Convention against Genocide and the Fourth Geneva Convention.
The Fourth Geneva Convention guarantees basic human rights to civilians under military occupation by putting signatories (including Canada) under a contractual legal obligation to arrest and ensure that those responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity against those civilians are held accountable. Ehud Olmert and Tzipi Livni were responsible for crimes against Palestinians in the horrific Cast Lead attacks in Gaza: they must be made accountable.
Canada must respect the key laws that protect everyone’s most basic human rights; ignoring them is criminal.
Karin Brothers, Toronto
Hind Rajab Foundation files complaint in Canada demanding arrest of ex-Israeli officials over Gaza war crimes
Pro-Palestine rights groups are urging Ottawa to detain Ehud Olmert and Tzipi Livni under Canada’s Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act
3 December 2025
The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF), the Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights (CLAIHR), and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) have formally petitioned Canadian authorities to detain former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert and former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni upon their arrival in Toronto on 3 December….
The organizations say Canada is obliged to investigate suspects who enter its jurisdiction and are calling for police to open a case and issue warrants for both officials…
Gaza families receive mutilated remains of loved ones as Israel withholds forensic records
The UN has determined Israel maintains a ‘de facto state policy of organized torture’ as Gaza officials say bodies returned by the occupation army are often bound, stitched open, or missing organs
4 December 2025
(Photo credit: Mahmoud Issa/Reuters)
Palestinian families searching for closure say the bodies returned by Israel over recent months arrived in Gaza in such disfigured condition that many could barely be identified, deepening their grief and raising fears about what happened to their relatives in custody, Palestinians revealed to the Middle East Eye (MEE) on 3 December.
At Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, staff received hundreds of bodies that were “frozen, numbered, and silent,” with many bearing severed fingers, missing toes, long stitched incisions, and, in several cases, signs of restraint and blunt-force trauma….
Gaza’s Government Media Office formally accused Israel of stealing organs from Palestinians after 120 mutilated bodies were returned during the recent ceasefire, saying many arrived blindfolded, bound, crushed, or missing corneas, livers, and limbs. Officials in Gaza called for an international investigation, warning that the scale and condition of the remains pointed to systematic abuse….
Israel has confirmed that in the 1990s, its state forensic institute harvested corneas, skin, bones, and heart valves from Palestinians and others without family approval.
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The Hamas actions on Oct. 7, 2023, in context, were “justifiable and long overdue”.
— Richard Falk Professor Emeritus of International Law and former UN Special Rapporteur for the oPt
“If Hamas loses, we all lose.”
— Former U.N. senior human rights lawyer Craig Mokhiber noting Hamas’s support for international law.
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