On December 28, 2025, Israel announced it plan to bar 37 humanitarian organizations from operating in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). This includes Humanity & Inclusion, Doctors Without Borders, Norwegian Refugee Council, Defence for Children International Palestine, and Oxfam-Quebec. As Al-Haq noted: “The announcement follows Israel’s introduction, in March 2025, of additional registration requirements, whose aim is to consolidate its genocidal conduct in Gaza –– of which denial of access to humanitarian aid remains a central element ­­–– to further fragment and isolate the Palestinian people from international support.”

Israel has a long-standing history of impeding access, evidenced by the nearly two decades long blockade of Gaza, all in pursuit of its settler colonial project. This is also not the first time Israel has suspended humanitarian organizations activity. In 2024, Israeli parliament banned UNRWA, “the principal provider of aid, education, health and social services to Palestinian refugees across Gaza, the occupied West Bank and neighbouring countries for decades.” Then and now, Israel accuses aid organizations of support and cover for “terrorism”; an ironic accusation from an apartheid state committing genocide and war crimes.

States, including Canada, have legal obligations to take concrete actions to hold Israel accountable and enforce international law.

“It is imperative that all States, including home States of the affected 37 organisations –– Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom –– take meaningful concrete actions to counter Israel’s unconstrained settler colonisation of Palestinian territory, revoke the status of settler charities and related illegal entities, revoke all benefits and State entitlements to unlawfully present settlers with dual nationalities, and implement legislation to prohibit the sale of settlement goods and services.” — Al-Haq

Therefore, in solidarity with Al-Haq’s demands, we call upon Canada to:

•               Implement comprehensive diplomatic and economic sanctions on Israel, a full two-way arms embargo, and a ban on trade in goods and services that sustain the settler colonial apartheid and occupation;

•               Revoke the status of settler charities and related illegal entities, revoke all benefits and State entitlements to unlawfully present settlers with dual nationalities, and implement legislation to prohibit the sale of settlement goods and services domestically;

•               Comply with obligations under the Genocide Convention and enforce the International Court of Justice (ICJ) orders for provisional measures to prevent irreparable harm to Palestinians in Gaza;

•               Fully implement the recommendations of the International Court of Justice 2024 Palestine Advisory Opinion and 2025 UNRWA Advisory Opinion;

•               Cooperate in enforcing International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrants for Israeli officials and activate universal jurisdiction mechanisms in national courts to prosecute perpetrators of international crimes;

•               Publicly condemn as unlawful Israeli and US sanctions against Palestinian human rights organizations and ensure continued financial and political support for their work;

•               Ensure the safety and uninterrupted passage of humanitarian aid convoys and flotillas to Gaza and provide all necessary support to UNRWA.

•               Address the root causes underpinning the ongoing Israeli military aggression, including Israel’s apartheid regime since 1948, as a tool of its settler colonialism, and the denial of the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people, including their right to return;

•               Rescind the UN General Assembly membership rights of apartheid Israel, for its flagrant breaches of Resolution 181 with respect to the status of Palestine and Jerusalem, and Resolution 194 on the return and repatriation of Palestinian refugees, two resolutions which Israel has consistently refused to fulfil since 1948.

Take a minute to write to Prime Minister Carney, Foreign Affairs Minister Anand and your own member of Canadian parliament.