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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.
“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.
A spokesperson for Anand’s office, Myah Tomasi, also said to CBC News that Canada’s Ambassador to Israel, Leslie Scanlon, met with Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar as well.
Tomasi said Sa’ar’s ministry has agreed to conduct a probe.
“We were very adamant that this investigation is extremely important,” Anand said.
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.
CBC News has reached out to the embassy about Haidar’s death, and Moed’s meeting with Canadian officials, but has received no response.
Israel has not claimed responsibility for the incident.
3rd summons in less than a year
It is the third time Anand has summoned Moed for a démarche, a diplomatic tool sometimes used to lodge a complaint with another country, since last spring.
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.
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 same route earlier in the year, sponsored by the same organization, had been allowed entry.
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.’
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 in Gaza.
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.
The Israel Defense Forces published a statement on that strike, saying it was a mistake and expressing its regret.
Global Affairs has also told CBC News it received an update from Israel on the matter of the water plant in September 2024, but declined to share the results.
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