Canada will cease sending arms shipments to Israel, Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly told the Toronto Star.

In a brief statement, Joly described the decision as "a real thing." 

The AFP news agency also reported the news, citing a Canadian official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. 

"The situation on the ground makes it so that we can't" export any kind of military equipment to Israel, AFP quoted its source as saying.

Israel slammed the decision, saying it "undermines Israel's right to self-defense against Hamas terrorists."

"History will judge Canada's current action harshly," Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

Canada has provided Israel annually with billions of dollars in military aid.

Following the October 7 terror attacks by the Palestinian militant group Hamas on southern Israel and Israel's military response in Gaza, Canada reduced its weapons shipments to Israel to non-lethal equipment.