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Canadian officials summoned Israeli Ambassador Iddo Moed last week to request an investigation into the killing of Mohammad Hassan Haidar, a Canadian citizen in southern Lebanon, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Tuesday.<\/p>\n
“We did speak with the Israeli ambassador and we requested that Israel undertake a full and transparent investigation,” Anand told CBC News on her way into a weekly cabinet meeting.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for Anand’s office, Myah Tomasi, also said to CBC News that Canada’s Ambassador to Israel,\u00a0Leslie Scanlon, met with Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tomasi said the ministry has agreed to conduct a probe.<\/p>\n
“We were very adamant that this investigation is extremely important,” Anand said.<\/p>\n
Haidar’s family said in an emotional news conference in Windsor, Ont., last week that he was killed in a drone attack on April 10, in the southern Lebanon community of Qana while trying to assist someone who was injured right outside his home.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Family and friends of Mohammad Hassan Haidar held an emotional media availability in front of in Windsor, Ont., on April 13. (Pratyush Dayal\/CBC)<\/p>\n
CBC News has reached out\u00a0 to the embassy about Haidar’s death, and Moed’s meeting with Canadian officials, but has received no response.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Israel has not claimed responsibility for the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n
3rd summons in less than a year <\/p>\n
It is the third time Anand has summoned Moed for a d\u00e9marche, a diplomatic tool sometimes used to lodge a complaint with another country, since last spring.<\/p>\n
In May 2025, Anand issued a summons over the Israeli military firing shots near a diplomatic delegation that included Canadians. At the time, the military said the delegation had “deviated” from an approved route.<\/p>\n
In December, Anand summoned Moed again after a delegation of Canadian MPs was blocked from entering the West Bank and Jerusalem. The Israeli government at the time said the MPs were sponsored by a group it considers a terrorist organization, though different parliamentarians undertaking much the\u00a0same route earlier in the year, sponsored by the same organization, had been allowed entry.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Canada summoned Israeli ambassador, requested investigation into killing of Canadian in Lebanon<\/p>\n
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand confirmed Canadian officials met with Israel’s ambassador to Canada, requesting Israel conduct a ‘full and transparent’ investigation into the killing of a Canadian citizen in Lebanon. When asked if Israel committed to an investigation, Anand said, ‘We are very much hoping that they will respond positively to our request.’<\/p>\n
It is also not the first time the Canadian government has asked Israel to probe its military’s actions. In August 2024, then-International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen said he had requested an investigation into a demolished Canadian water treatment plant<\/a> in Gaza.\u00a0<\/p>\n Earlier that year, then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also said he wanted some “very clear answers” on how a Canadian aid worker, Jacob Flickinger, was killed during a strike in Gaza.<\/a><\/p>\n