Canada

Since May 2024, the Canadian government has sanctioned 17 individuals and seven entities for perpetrating “extremist settler violence against civilians” in the West Bank. Canada has said the ongoing violence “has undermined the human rights of Palestinians, prospects for a two-state solution and posed significant risks to regional security.”

But tax deductible donations made by Canadians to groups that financially support the West Bank settlements are continuing in the face of the escalating attacks on Palestinian civilians, an investigation by CBC's the fifth estate has found.

Most of the 500,000 settlers who live in the West Bank are not involved in physical violence against Palestinians, but critics say their very presence is complicit because it legitimizes the violence some settlers resort to to lay claim to the land.