Ottawa – As Canada enhances its criticism of how Israel is fighting the war in Gaza, an Israeli junior minister says that his government will not present for an international inquiry into the war that it seems that it seems to reduce the validity of the state.
Israeli’s Foreign Affairs Deputy Minister Sharan Haskel said, “We are a democracy with a check and balance and a strong judicial system.”
In an interview with Canadian Press, Toronto-born Haskel-Role makes him equal to a Canadian junior minister in Israel’s cabinet-Canada said that Iran needs to do more to fight the dangers caused by Iran abroad and at home.
“I am not sure that the average Canadian can actually understand what is to fight on its existence against the radical jihadi terrorist organization from six different fronts,” he said.
He said that Israel is fighting Iran and its proxy, such as Hizbullah in Lebanon, Hauthi movement in Yemen and Hamas in Palestinian areas. The Iranian regime has called for the destruction of Israel for years.
But Canada has expressed concern about the casualty number in Gaza and the Israeli strategy, and is patrolling the Israeli -occupied soldiers in West Bank.
Haskel said that Ottawa should allow Israel to examine those concerns.
Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October 2023, resulting in the most deadly massacre of the Jews since the Holocaust. Hamas and its colleagues killed 1,200 people in Israel and took 251 people hostage; They still hold around 50.
The attack inspired Israel to bomb Gaza. Hamas officials say the Israeli military action, including attacks on hospitals and refugee camps, killed about 60,000 Palestinians.
Canada repeatedly warned that Israel may violate the International Humanitarian Law – a matter of concern, Prime Minister Mark Karney’s government has expressed a rapidly strong language since the April Election.
In May, Carney joined France and the UK in threatening Israel with “solid tasks” on restrictions on assistance on the Gaza Strip and assistance on the expansion of illegal settlements in the West Bank.
In June, Ottawa included Australia and others in the approval of two remote Israeli government ministers, saying they had provoked violence against Palestinians.
The Israeli government has allowed the newly formed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to distribute assistance in a handful of places in Gaza under the supervision of Israeli soldiers, effectively closed hundreds of sites, which were operated by international agencies in the region.
Israel says that this step had to be taken to prevent help from reaching Hamas, who was selling significant supply and food to pay for their fighters. External Affairs Minister Anita Anand has said that Israel is the amount for Israel using food as a political tool.
Carney’s government said that last month it is “deeply worried” that hundreds of people “have been killed in scenes of chaos and frightening circumstances, as people in Gaza try to reach limited help.”
Over the last 18 months, Canada has pushed to investigate several incidents involving citizens – including the murder of Canadian aid worker Jacob Flikinger in April 2024, one of the seven world central kitchen staff killed by Israeli air strikes, who distribute food.
Canada demanded Israeli soldiers to respond to the July 2024 demolition of a large water facility in an area of ​​Gaza Strip, where Canadian aid is often directed.
In May, Anand called Israel’s ambassador after capturing the West Bank -occupied force in the area around Canadian and other diplomats during a human assessment of the Genin refugee camp.
Israel has opposed the call for an international inquiry into these incidents and has not provided Ottawa with its conclusions.
The Israeli government also does not allow journalists to travel to Gaza unless they are inherent with Israeli soldiers – a practice journalists without boundaries have said that there is without example in modern war.
Haskel said that any incident related to citizen injuries or death in the hands of Israeli soldiers is inadvertently. He said that Israel tries to follow human law by warning and emptying people before military operations.
He said that “mistakes” occur in Gaza as it is a densely populated area where Hamas embed himself among the citizens – intentionally, he argued, because civilians increase international pressure on Israel to prevent Hamas from fighting Hamas.
Haskel argues that the United Nations incorrectly targeted Israel, paying less attention to the actions of the cruel dictatorship – a stance had been echoing for Canada for years as it rejected Israel’s most unreasonable speed.
The attitude changed in December 2023, when Canada inspired to call Israel or even began to accept the motions.
Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations, Bob Rai, cited concerns about the policies of Israel who had to call Ottawa’s long-term policy for decades for a Palestinian country present with Israel.
Rai last month demanded a ceasefire for the United Nations resolution, saying that “it is incompatible, indisputable that the human situation in Gaza is unbearable,” and accused Israel of killing the “disgusting” level of citizens while assisting.
Haskel said that Israel wants peace with its neighbors, but needs to neutralize the dangers for the existence of its country. He said that Israel launched airstrikes against Iran, which is enriching uranium, but insists that it was not making a nuclear weapon.
Iran responded with attacks in Israel. Haskel said she had to transfer three of her daughters-the oldest of them in a bomb shelter during just four-year-old 12-day campaign.
He said that he modified a dresser to make an impromptu cot bed in the shelter, so that he could sleep again at night instead of running there. She said that she used to sing her children sometimes to distract them with the sound of explosions.
“How do you explain that infants? Every time they hear them alarm, start to fear them, knowing that missiles and rockets are coming,” he said.
“The only thing that went to our brain as Israelis is that, now, we are securing their future and literally protecting them from an atomic holiday.”
This report of Canadian Press was first published on 8 July 2025.
Dylan Robertson, Canadian Press
