Canada said on Wednesday that it invoked Israel Ambassador after the Israeli defense forces fired firing near a diplomatic delegation in the West Bank It included four Canadians.
The FDI says that no one was injured in the incident.
“Raised to know that our team is safe”, Minister of Foreign Affairs Anita Anand said in A message on X.
“I asked my officials to summon the ambassador of Israel to express the serious concerns of Canada. We expect a complete investigation and responsibility. ”
Prime Minister Mark Carney said the incident was “completely unacceptable”.
“These are some of the things that are completely unacceptable that happens in the region,” he told journalists in Chelsea, Quebec. After a cabinet planning forum.
In a declarationA TSAhal spokesperson said that the diplomatic group touring the city of Jenin had “diverted” from his approved route and that the soldiers fired warning to make him move away from an area that they were not allowed to visit.
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The FDI said it launched an investigation into what happened and would speak with the diplomats concerned to update them on its conclusions.
Jean-Noël Barrot, French Minister for Foreign Affairs, said that in a position on social networks, the situation was unacceptable and the Israelian ambassador to France was summoned to explain it.
Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Antonio Tajani said that he also appealed to the Israeli ambassador to Italy to explain the incident.
In a joint declaration published earlier this weekPrime Minister Mark Carney, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron threatened to impose “targeted sanctions” in Israel in response to his military offensive renewal in Gaza and the “totally inadequate” quantity of food aid authorized to enter the enclave.
The letter also indicated the opposition of leaders to “any attempt” to expand the Israeli regulation in the West Bank.
On Wednesday, Carney would not say what “concrete action” Canada would take if Israel ignores the requests of the leaders, but suggested that any measure would be part of a joint response with France and Great Britain.
“The intention of the clear language-not only of ourselves, but of France, the United Kingdom and many other countries-is that Israel guarantees that adequate humanitarian aid arrives at the population there, many of which are on the verge of famine,” he said.
Carney added that he had informed the American vice-president JD Vance at their meeting in Rome last weekend that the joint declaration was coming, but said that it was a “one-way conversation”.
The Trump administration ordered American policy to firmly support Israel in its military objectives against Hamas, while putting pressure on a ceasefire and the return of all the hostages taken in the attack of October 7, 2023 which sparked the current conflict.
In a social media position Monday evening, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Carney, Starmer and Macron of “offering a huge price” in Hamas with their joint declaration.
Hamas, which is listed as a terrorist entity in Canada, welcomed the letter in an online statement on Tuesday, calling it “an important step in the right direction”.
Conservative leader Pierre Hairyvre said on x this week That Hamas’ declaration shows that Canada must adopt the opposite of its current conflict approach.
“Menate Israel with sanctions and” other concrete actions “while a terrorist group at their borders holds their citizens hostage and refuses to stop attacking Israel is false,” he said.
On Tuesday, the United Kingdom issued sanctions against what it called three people, two “illegal settlers” and two organizations “supporting violence against the Palestinian communities” in the West Bank.
Canada has sanctioned people and individuals for violence of extremist settlers against the Palestinians in the West Bank in the past. The last series of sanctions was announced in September of last year.
– with Canadian press files
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