Montreal, April 9, 2026 -- Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) is urging the Canadian government to impose sanctions on Israel following its devastating wave of airstrikes across Lebanon yesterday, which killed at least 182 people and wounded more than 890, according to Lebanon’s Ministry of Health. The death toll is expected to rise as rescue workers continue searching for survivors trapped beneath the rubble. The strikes, which hit over 100 locations within 10 minutes, targeted densely populated residential neighbourhoods in Beirut and other regions, causing widespread destruction and panic among civilians.

This report synthesizes existing data to project that between 14% and 20% of Gaza's pre-October 7, 2023, population (approximately 341,000–480,800 Palestinians) could ultimately be killed as a result of Israel's operations and the subsequent conditions by 2030 without urgent intervention from Canada and its allies. The report uses existing estimates and modelling to define various projections of Palestinian deaths for the different possible outcomes of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. The report concludes that the case that Israel has committed genocide is strong and supported by a growing body of scholarly and grey literature from the UN and NGOs..  Access the full report here.

It is our last chance to demand that Canadian lawmakers drop Bill C-9, and reject pro-Israel efforts to restrict Charter-protected freedoms, including criticism of Israel. Bill C-9, a law demanded by pro-Israel groups, threatens to repress the Palestine solidarity movement. This includes dangerous restrictions on the ability of Canadians to confront Israeli war criminals on Canadian soil or to expose the use of Jewish communal institutions as venues for illegal land sales. Without shame, they are doing this at the exact moment Israel and the US are devastating Lebanon and Iran and continue to restrict lifesaving access to Gaza. Israel’s foreign interference strategy in Canada is to emotionally misdirect Canadians into repressing critics of Israel by dangerously conflating human-rights based activism with hateful conduct. Israel wants heavy restrictions put on those that oppose genocide and regime change wars. In the face of Israel’s campaign of foreign interference, we need to send a strong message to the Canadian government that we will not stand for any collusion, witting or unwitting, with Israel to undermine the Charter of Rights and Freedoms of Canadians. We will not enact Israel’s agenda of transnational repression. Now that Bill C-9 has been passed by the House of Commons, join us in emailing Canada's Senate to tell them that we don’t need to import Israel’s repressive agenda to Canada. Reject Bill C-9.

Israel’s Illegal War on Iran Factsheet Series No. 251, created: June 2025, Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East   View factsheet in PDF format CJPME Factsheet 251, published June 2025: Amid ongoing diplomatic negotiations between the United States and Iran regarding its nuclear program, Israel launched airstrikes on June 13, 2025, targeting Iranian nuclear facilities and civilian infrastructure. Without evidence, Israel claimed the assault was a “pre-emptive” measure to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. In the first week alone, Israel’s strikes have killed hundreds of Iranian civilians.[1] Iran responded with ballistic missile attacks, triggering a series of escalating exchanges which could lead to a catastrophic regional war.