The activists are calling on Canada to stop sending weapons to Israel as it continues to bomb the Palestinian enclave, Al Jazeera reports.

Videos shared on social media showed dozens of people sitting at the entrance of a parliament building in Ottawa, singing songs and chanting, “Arms embargo now!”

“Every bomb Israel drops on Gaza and every missile they fire into Lebanon carries a grim truth: the warplanes and attack helicopters raining destruction on civilians could not fly without hundreds of Canadian-made components,” Niall Ricardo of Independent Jewish Voices Canada, one of the organisers of the protest, said in a statement.

“Canada’s ongoing arms exports and diplomatic support make it complicit in these atrocities.”