Activity

• The government of Canada provides direct funding to NGOs through Global Affairs Canada (GAC).
• Indirect funding to NGOs operating in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza is provided via various UN agencies. Many of these NGOs are involved in anti-peace activities such as incitement and BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions); some also have reported ties to terrorist organizations.
• All funding amounts listed are in Canadian dollars ($ CAD).

Lack of Transparency

• Global Affairs Canada maintains an online database of Canadian-funded projects, but does not list any secondary project partners – reflecting a lack of transparency and accountability.
• In response to an Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) request, GAC acknowledged that it does not maintain organized records of secondary project partners, and provided a technical explanation: “There is no field in SAP¹ to identify local NGOs or other organizations that may be considered sub-implementers. There is no other database that collects this information systematically.”

Developments Since the October 7th Atrocities

• In October 2023 – October 2025, Canada committed over $400 million in humanitarian aid to the West Bank and Gaza. On August 8, 2025, GAC released a “backgrounder” identifying NGO and UN agency partners receiving portions of this sum. The backgrounder claims that “Trusted and reliable partners are selected based on their sectoral expertise and operational capacity to deliver.” Nevertheless, NGO Monitor research clearly demonstrates that several of these organizations have documented affiliations with terrorist entities and promote hostile, anti-Israel rhetoric and activities.
• In the aftermath of the brutal Hamas attack on October 7, the Canadian government announced it would match donations, up to $10 million, for the Humanitarian Coalition’s Gaza Humanitarian Emergency Appeal. This was part of Canada’s allocation of “$50 million in humanitarian assistance funding announced on October 21, 2023.”
  • The Humanitarian Coalition comprises 12 NGOs, self-described as “trusted Canadian humanitarian aid organizations.” However, NGO Monitor research shows that a number of coalition members have links to proscribed terror groups or partner locally in the West Bank and Gaza with NGOs affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). 
    • World Vision – On June 15, 2016, Mohammad El-Halabi, the manager of operations for World Vision in Gaza, was arrested by Israeli authorities. He was accused of diverting approximately $50 million over ten years from World Vision’s Gaza budget to the Hamas terrorist organization, including creating humanitarian projects and fictitious agricultural associations to act as a cover for the hijacking of monies and materials for Hamas. On June 15, 2022, the Be’er Sheva District Court convicted El-Halabi of contact with a foreign agent, membership in a terror organization, illegal use of property for terror purposes, possession of weapons and ammunition, illegal military training, and providing information to the enemy. (For additional details, see NGO Monitor’s analysis: “Verdict in case of Mohammad El-Halabi/World Vision Diversion of Funds to Hamas.”)
    • Islamic Relief Canada – Islamic Relief Canada is an “affiliate” of Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW). On June 19, 2014, Israel’s Defense Minister declared IRW to be illegal, based on its alleged role in funneling money to Hamas, and banned it from operating in Israel and the West Bank. According to news reports, the decision was made after “the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), the coordinator for government activities in the territories, and legal authorities provided incriminating information against IRW.” In January 2021, the US State Department cut ties with IRW due to “anti-Semitism exhibited repeatedly by IRW’s leadership.” Islamic Relief Canada states that it works “alongside the Ministry of Health” in Gaza. This is a Hamas entity. 
      • Since 2006, Islamic Relief Palestine (IRPAL) has cooperated with the Al-Falah Society. According to the Meir Amit Institute, the Al-Falah Society Charitable is one of “Hamas’s charitable societies.” Al-Falah is run by Ramadan Tanboura – according to Haaretz, a “well-known Hamas figure.” According to the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, Hamas held a reception for Tanboura “on his return from an eight-month fund-raising trip to the Gulf States. Senior Hamas figures also participated.”
      • IRPAL partners with the Gaza Zakat Committee (GZC), also known as the Islamic Zakat Society (IZS). IZS works closely with the Hamas government and is managed by Hamas preacher Hazem Al-Sirraj. According to Dr. Emanuel Schaeublin, a lecturer at the University of Zurich, GZC has ties to Fatah, the PFLP, and Hamas. Islamic Relief UK and Islamic Relief Canada are both named by IZS as its patrons.
      • In 2006, IRW Gaza coordinator Iyaz Ali, a Pakistani-born British national, was arrested and charged with transferring funds and assistance to “Hamas institutions and organizations, including the Al Wafa and Al Tzalah associations, which have been outlawed in Israel. He also admitted that he worked in Jordan and cooperated with local Hamas operatives.” 
    • CARE International – CARE has provided funding to the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, Health Work Committees (HWC), and Abdel Shafi Community Health Association (ACHA). All three of these NGOs have ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). 

Direct Funding

• CARE Canada
  • In 2025, Canada granted $2 million to CARE for “shelter and non-food item kits and cash-for-shelter interventions” in the West Bank and Gaza.
• Save the Children
  • In 2025, Canada provided $2 million to Save the Children in “life-saving assistance to address the urgent nutrition and protection needs of crisis-affected people” in the West Bank and Gaza.
• Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations Canada (UOSSM)
  • In 2025, Canada granted $2 million to UOSSM in “primary health care for internally displaced persons and other vulnerable populations.”
  • On November 27, 2023, UOSSM Vice-Chair Dr. Anas Al-Kassem reposted a tweet by notorious antisemite Jackson Hinkle distorting the image of former hostage Maya Regev by implying that she was in love with her Hamas captor. In April 2024, Regev testified that “every girl” held hostage in Gaza “is sexually harassed in one way or another.”
  • On October 9, 2023, Dr. Al-Kassem tweeted, “Taking civilian hostages is not acceptable, and must be condemned regardless of who is implicated in such act (sic). That’s why it is outrageous to see politicians not condemning the hostage of 2 million people (sic) in Gaza by Israel forces in the largest open prison the world has known!”
• Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC)
  • The government of Canada claimed (October 2020) that “While Canadian-funded projects with experienced international and Canadian partner organizations have included UAWC as a sub-implementer in the past, we do not currently fund the organization, directly or indirectly.” However, Canada was funding a $15.6 million project (2016-2022) with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) that lists UAWC as an implementing partner.
  • In 2019, according to a UAWC Facebook post, Canada funded a UAWC project to “strengthen the steadfastness of women farmers and cooperative work.” Due to the lack of GAC transparency, it is unclear how much funding UAWC received.
  • In 2018, Canada funded a UAWC project dedicated to the “restoration of land and construction of 16 house gardens in Khan Yunis.” Neither GAC nor UAWC discloses funding details for the project.
  • The Union of Agricultural Work Committee (UAWC) is identified by Fatah as an official “affiliate” and by USAID-engaged audit as the “agricultural arm” of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a terrorist organization designated as such by the US, EU, Canada, and Israel. On October 22, 2021, the Israeli Ministry of Defense declared UAWC a “terror organization” because it is part of “a network of organizations” that operates “on behalf of the ‘Popular Front’.” For more information on UAWC’s PFLP ties, read NGO Monitor’s report “Union of Agricultural Work Committees Ties to the PFLP Terror Group.”
    • Samer Arbid, UAWC’s accountant from 2016 until his arrest in 2019, was indicted on 21 counts in Israeli military court. Arbid is on trial for commanding a PFLP terror cell that carried out a bombing, murdering an Israeli civilian, and injuring her father and brother. According to the indictment against him (on file), Arbid prepared and detonated the explosive device. On August 30, 2020, the PFLP referred to Arbid as a “prisoner and commander,” and “one of the heroes of the Bubeen operation” — referring to the August 2019 bombing.
    • Abdel Razeq Farraj, UAWC’s “Finance and Administration Director” is also currently standing trial. According to his indictment (on file), Razeq Farraj held a senior PFLP post and authorized the August 23, 2019 bombing.
• In 2025-2030, GAC is providing $5 million to United Church of Canada: Kairos Initiatives for a project titled “Women peacebuilders address triple nexus.” Twenty five percent of funding (approximately $1.3 million) is earmarked for the West Bank and Gaza in partnership with a pro-BDS NGO Wi’am Palestinian Conflict Resolution and Transformation Center.
  • Wi’am Palestinian Conflict Resolution and Transformation Center
    • In December 2024, W’iam’s founder and director Zoughbi Zoughbi alleged, “Apartheid is a sin, and we pay a devastating daily price. When will the nations of the world finally speak to the suffering, to the genocide of our people? When will the International Criminal Court console the oppressed and enforce justice—or does it lack the resolve to act…Palestinians must persist in their pro-active nonviolent resistance to end Israeli apartheid and occupation. In particular, nonviolence aims to defeat injustice, not people; and it insists that the universe will ever be on the side of justice.”
    • In December 2023, Women Coordinator Lucy Talgieh posted a video claiming, “humanity has failed you in so many ways…they have stolen your land…all of this was happening before the 7th of October but the world was not watching. Now we do. We amplify your voice, boycott, and march for your freedom…resistance is the only way to gain freedom.”
  • United Church of Canada
    • In November 2024, UCC accused Israel of “ethnic cleansing and genocide in all parts of the OPT and extending Israel’s military aggression to Lebanon, Iran, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen.” UCC called on Canada to “Formally recognize Israel as an apartheid State and persistent violator of international law” and “Investigate and prosecute corporate entities and dual citizens involved in crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories, including soldiers, mercenaries, and settlers.”
    • In January 2024, UCC sent a letter to then Prime Minister Trudeau urging the Canadian government to “support South Africa’s application to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to declare Israel in breach of its obligations under the 1948 Genocide Convention. Canada should support international independent legal mechanisms such as the ICJ to issue a legal opinion on this issue.”
    • In November 2021, UCC’s “Just Peace Task Group” published a report titled “In Support of Just Peace in Palestine and Israel: A Call to Costly Solidarity” to “review the church’s policy on Palestine and Israel in light of the changing context and partner calls for solidarity.” The report argued that “it no longer makes sense for The United Church to affirm Israel as a Jewish state” and declared that “when viewed through the lens of the principles, the United Church of Canada could affirm the accuracy and usefulness of the term apartheid to describe laws and legal procedures of the State of Israel” (emphasis added). The report also advocated for engaging in “constructive economic measures such as educating our members on products that support the occupation and calling for effective labelling of such products… While not under the official BDS heading.”
  • KAIROS Canada
    • On August 6, 2025, KAIROS Canada claimed, “People in Gaza are dying from starvation and malnutrition. Despite global outcry, the Israeli government continues to block aid and target civilians.”
    • In May 2024, KAIROS Canada led Canadian churches in a “Gaza Ceasefire Pilgrimage” – which culminated in “a vigil on Parliament Hill” – that demanded, inter alia, that Canada “End all arms transfers to Israel.”
    • On November 2, 2023, KAIROS Canada posted an “Update from KAIROS’ Middle Eastern partners” Wi’am Palestinian Conflict Resolution Centre and HaMoked, including a statement from the former that states, “The Palestinian people, like all people, love life and wish to live it, with dignity and freedom, enjoying all that this world has to offer. As such, we call for an immediate ceasefire first, followed by immediate provision of basic needs, including shelter, food, medicine, and services, an exchange of hostages, and an end to occupation” (emphasis added).
      • The call for “an exchange of hostages” implies the moral and legal equivalence of Hamas and PIJ holding innocent civilians hostage and Israel imprisoning convicted terrorists.
• 7amleh
  • In 2023, Canada granted $30,000 to Israeli NGO 7amleh.
  • Since 2016, 7amleh has campaigned against Facebook’s, Twitter’s, and Instagram’s  policies of taking down posts featuring incitement to violence, support for terror, and antisemitism, arguing that social media platforms “all too often lead to the silencing and erasure of critical voices,” “censor[ing] Palestinian voices,” and attacking “free speech.”
  • 7amleh board members and officials have used Facebook to celebrate violence against Israelis. 
  • On October 7, Board Member Neveen Abu Rahmoun posted on Facebook, “The Palestinian resistance is imposing a new stage since the beginning of the Al-Aqsa flood operation by resistance fighters infiltrating into numerous Israeli neighborhoods in the settlements, by creating points of contact, and by firing rockets of the resistance. Israel, in its turn, is constrained by this and has announced a state of high mobilization for war. The message of the resistance is clear, it has started and it shall escalate and shall impose a new reality” (emphases added).
• Ma’an Development Center.
  • In 2025, Canada granted Ma’an $2 million for “non-food items and shelter kits and support for emergency shelter repairs and adaptation.”
  • In the aftermath of the brutal Hamas attack on October 7, Ma’an Development Center was a signatory on a statement calling to “emphasize that the root causes of these events is the illegal occupation of Palestine by Israel.” According to the NGO, “We consider the flagrant unconditional support the U.S and European officials are offering Israel occupation while ignoring the plight of the Palestinian people as complicity in Israeli human rights violations and crimes against humanity, including the crime of apartheid. It is the international community’s failure to hold the Israel occupation accountable for its crimes that have led to the current situation.”
  • In May 2018, Ma’an Development Center employee Ahmad Abdallah Aladini was killed in the violence on the Gaza border. Aladini was a “comrade” of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a terrorist organization designated as such by the US, EU, Canada, and Israel. According to the PFLP, Aladini was active against the “Zionist aggression on the Gaza Strip.”
• Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
  • In 2025, GAC provided $3 million to NRC for “support[ing] the Gaza and West Bank protection consortiums in delivering comprehensive services, including cash assistance, protection, health programs, preparedness and coordinated humanitarian advocacy efforts.”
    • The Consortium claims that “bringing together international agencies from different countries provides the potential to leverage more diverse political and financial support [collaborate] between the INGOs … creates an opportunity to mobilize broader and coordinated political support from diplomats in country and in the capitals of respective INGOs….” 
    • Through the Consortium, NRC works with partner NGOs to “transform policies and practices” and to “ensure effective and timely political interventions by the UN and Third States.” These partners include ACTED, Première Urgence Internationale (PUI) Gruppo di Volontariato Civile (GVC), and Action Against Hunger.
    • Additionally, NRC and the Consortium are key implementers of cash assistance programs coordinated by the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Social Development (MoSD). According to NRC’s April 2024 “Gaza Crisis Response Plan,” “NRC has been providing cash assistance in Palestine since 2014, notably as lead of the Gaza Protection Consortium (GPC)  and in close collaboration with the Cash Working Group (CWG)…NRC fosters strong partnerships with national and local authorities, particularly with the MoSD in Gaza and the West Bank, ensuring targeted assistance through the Gaza Protection Consortium’s cash programming.”
    • As extensively detailed in NGO Monitor’s July 2024 report, “Norwegian Refugee Council’s Campaign to Weaken and Circumvent US Anti-terror Policy,” NRC lobbies to change counter-terror regulations. According to NRC Secretary-General Jan Egeland at a December 2020 conference organized by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, “Exemptions from counter-terrorism laws and sanctions regimes…We need blanket humanitarian exemptions.” He added, “We need you to champion that there will be no vetting of the ultimate beneficiaries of humanitarian relief.”
    • NRC leads massive and unprecedented political campaigns exploiting the Israeli legal system. In sharp contrast to NRC’s ostensibly humanitarian agenda, this massive program focuses on some of the most complex and sensitive political issues in the Arab-Israeli context. (Read NGO Monitor’s report “Flooding the Courts: The Norwegian Refugee Council’s European-Funded Proxy War.”)
    • One of NRC’s principle projects in Israel, “Information, Counselling and Legal Assistance (ICLA),” exploits judicial frameworks to manipulate Israeli policy, bypassing democratic frameworks. Included in ICLA’s program goals is “supporting the PA both locally and nationally on casework.”
• Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF; Doctors Without Borders)
  • In 2024, MSF received €8.4 million from Canada.
  • MSF has provided funding to the Abdel Shafi Community Health Association (ACHA), formerly known as the Red Crescent Society for the Gaza Strip (RCS4GS). ACHA was founded and is directed by senior members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Other employees have demonstrated support for Palestinian terror groups and their actions. On multiple occasions, ACHA facilities were used by the PFLP to hold events.
  • In November 2023, two MSF doctors, Mahmoud Abu Nujaila and Ahmad Al-Sahar, were killed as a result of a strike that hit Al-Awda hospital in Gaza. Al-Awda hospital was run by an NGO linked to the  PFLP terror group, AWDA Health and Community Association (formerly known as the Union of Health Work Committees, or UHWC). (For more information, read NGO Monitor’s report “MSF in Gaza: Terror-linked Employee and Hospital”)
    • Abu Nujaila was the head of the PFLP’s health group, the Democratic Health Association, and has openly supported the PFLP and its violent actions, along with other terrorists who brutally killed Israelis. On October 17, 2021, Abu Nujaila shared a picture of a handwritten stylized text in a notebook that read, “October 17th, when the [gun] silencer cried in joy.” Abu Nujaila wrote, “It was the prettiest day, it was the PFLP’s response, and it was the decree of the people.” He added victory and heart emojis. On October 17, 2001, a PFLP cell directed by PFLP Secretary-General Ahmad Sa’adat assassinated Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze’evi.
    • On April 28, 2023, Al-Sahar shared a photo of a Hamas “field commander” Mohammed Attallah Al-Sahar, along with a picture of his father in military uniform, and wrote, “Yesterday it was his father and now it is him. May Allah have mercy on them and accept them [in heaven] as martyrs.”
• In 2024, Mennonite Central Committee Canada (MCC) received $19.6 million from GAC.
  • MCC supports BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions) campaigns against Israel and the Kairos Palestine Document, which promotes BDS; denies the Jewish historical connections to Israel in theological terms; and rationalizes, justifies, and trivializes terrorism, calling it “legal resistance.”

Direct Funding from Global Affairs Canada

Indirect Canadian Funding

Oxfam Quebec

• In 2020-2027, Oxfam-Quebec is slated to receive up to $50 million in funding from the Canadian government, of which 10% is earmarked for “volunteer placements” at NGOs based in the West Bank and Gaza.
• In July 2021, Oxfam-Quebec’s Policy and Campaign Analyst Guilia El Dardiry published an op-ed, “In Gaza, Canada’s Words Won’t Be Enough” (French). The article calls for Canada to suspend arms sales to Israel. El Dardiry, who blames Israel exclusively for the conflict, claims this will “reaffirm [Canada’s] reputation as a world leader in the defense of international law.”

Funding via UN Frameworks

Funding to UNRWA

• In 2023-2025, GAC provided $55 million to UNRWA.
  • In January 2024, Israel alleged that at least 12 UNRWA employees participated in Hamas’ October 7th atrocities, and asserted in March 2024 that “over 450 UNRWA employees are military operatives in terror groups in Gaza.” Additionally, a January 2024 Wall Street Journal article, citing Israeli intelligence sources, reported that “23% of UNRWA’s male employees had ties to Hamas, a higher percentage than the average of 15% for adult males in Gaza, indicating a higher politicization of the agency than the population at large.” Furthermore, the PFLP and PIJ each have official unionized bodies of UNRWA employees. 
  • On January 26, 2024, GAC announced that it was halting funding to UNRWA due to “allegations of [the] agency’s staff being involved in Hamas’s brutal terrorist attacks against Israel on October 7, 2023.” On March 8, 2024, GAC issued a statement reinstating support for UNRWA, claiming that the agency “has taken immediate measures to strengthen oversight, accountability and transparency” – without identifying what these measures were. 

Funding to UNICEF

• In 2025, Canada granted $7 million to UNICEF in “ready-to-use therapeutic foods and complementary nutrition services, as well as . . .  cash transfers” in the West Bank and Gaza.
• In 2024, Canada granted $6.7 million to UNICEF for the “Interagency Flash Appeal: Gaza 2023.”
• In March 2024, UNICEF published an update regarding its cash-assistance program in Gaza, in which it claims to have supported over 540,000 Gazans since the Hamas-orchestrated October 7th massacre. UNICEF boasts that it “maintained and strengthened the partnership with the Ministry of Social Development (MoSD), which helped ensure access to the social registry and resulted in targeting the most vulnerable families.” In Gaza, the MoSD is a Hamas-run entity (for more information, see NGO Monitor’s report, “Hamas Influences UK Funded Gaza Cash Programme”).

Funding to UN Women

• In 2018-2025, Canada is granting $25 million to the HAYA Joint Programme, which focuses on community-based and domestic violence against women in Gaza and the West Bank. HAYA is jointly implemented by a consortium of UN agencies, including UN Women. Terror-tied Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) is one of the NGOs involved in the project.
  • On January 15, 2025, a post on Facebook by PCHR declared, “Israel has used starvation as a weapon of war with hunger gnawing at the bodies of children and women in Gaza, claiming the lives of many and daily risking others.” PCHR referenced financial support from the Canadian government, tagged the Representative Office of Canada to the PA, and featured a logo of Canada on images accompanying the post, along with the logo of HAYA.
  • It is unknown how much money was directed to PCHR as part of HAYA. It is also unknown to what extent PCHR’s involvement in the project was coordinated with Government of Canada officials or only with UN agencies. (For more information on HAYA, read NGO Monitor’s report “PFLP-Linked NGO Partners on CAD $25M Canadian Gov’t Program” and for more information on PCHR’s PFLP ties, read NGO Monitor’s report “Palestinian Centre for Human Rights’ Ties to the PFLP Terror Group.”)
• According to UN Women, members of its “Civil Society Advisory Group” include representatives from numerous NGOs involved in delegitimization and/or BDS campaigns against Israel, including Women’s Affairs Technical Committee (WATC), Al-Haq, PYALARA, and Culture and Free Thought Association (CFTA). It is unknown if the Canadian grant is being carried out with any of these or other organizations.

Funding to United Nations Population Fund

• In 2025, Canada granted $1 million to the UN Population Fund for “improv[ing] access to life-saving sexual and reproductive health and protection services through the provision of responsive gender-based violence prevention services and reproductive health services and supplies” in the West Bank and Gaza. Implementing partners are not listed. In a similar project in 2023 (USD 787,402), implementing partners included Abdel-Shafi Community Health Association (ACHA), Culture and Free Thought Association (CFTA), Women Affairs Center (WAC), and the Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS).

Funding to the World Food Program

• In 2025, Canada granted $30 million to the WFP for “respond[ing] to acute food insecurity and malnutrition through the provision of emergency food or cash assistance, as well as supplementary feeding when appropriate” in the West Bank and Gaza.
• According to documents published by the Food Security Sector, the Sector distributes funds and partners with NGOs, including UAWC, Ma’an Development Center, and Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees (PARC).

Funding to the United Nations Development Programme

• In 2025-2029, Canada is granting $10 million to the “Sawasya III – Reinforcing equal access to justice for all Palestinians” project, coordinated by a consortium of UN entities and led by the UNDP.
• Sawasya (phase II) NGO partners included PFLP-linked PCHR, DCI-P, Al Mezan, and AISHA, as well as other politicized NGOs such as Culture and Free Thought Association (CFTA), WCLAC, WAC, Hurryat, Terre des Hommes (TdH), Yesh Din, and Gisha.