In a joint statement with its G7 allies, the UK and France, earlier this week, Canada co-signed unusually strong language targeted at Israel, calling Gaza's suffering "intolerable" and Israel's minimal aid allotment "wholly inadequate".
It also called out Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's response to the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel as "wholly disproportionate" and "egregious".
Israel has killed 54,000 Palestinians in Gaza, a figure deemed a major undercount by The Lancet medical journal.
The three countries said they "will not stand by" in regards to Gaza, and will "not hesitate to take further action, including targeted sanctions" when it comes to Israeli settler attacks and the torching and bulldozing of Palestinian homes in the West Bank.
The statement's impact went so far as to elicit a response from Hamas, which called it an "important step towards restoring the principles of international law", which they said was being undermined by the “terrorist government of Netanyahu”.
