Online flight trackers show Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew hundreds of kilometers through Canadian airspace on his way to meet US President Donald Trump on Tuesday – despite Prime Minister Mark Carney previously saying he would comply with an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Netanyahu is wanted by the ICC for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Carney was Bloomberg asked last October if “Netanyahu would be arrested when he came to Canada”.

The prime minister answered “yes” twice.

But this is the second time an official Israeli government plane has flown Netanyahu through Canadian sovereign territory in the past two months.

On December 29, Netanyahu’s Boeing 767, known as the Wing of Zion, flew over Newfoundland and Nova Scotia en route to landing in Florida, where Netanyahu met with Trump at his Mar-A-Lago residence.

When CBC News asked for an explanation of the flight, Global Affairs Canada spokeswoman Samantha Lafleur said the department “does not comment on which route a foreign country has chosen to take. For security reasons, we are unable to provide further details.”

The flight crosses 3 provinces

On Tuesday, Netanyahu’s flight flew over Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick before entering US airspace in Maine.

Canadian the protocol requires foreign government flights to seek permission well in advance of entering Canadian airspace.

“Requests for foreign government, military or scientific aircraft to fly within Canadian territory should be submitted at least three business days (72 hours) before the proposed date of entry into Canadian airspace,” the government’s website says. “This advance notice is critical.”

CBC News asked Global Affairs if the Israeli government had sought permission for the latest flight, but did not receive a response at the time of publication.

Netanyahu has flown to the US seven times since Trump’s second inauguration.

During this time, his flying patterns changed in a way that suggested he was becoming less concerned about the risk of arrest.

When the Israeli Prime Minister traveled to the US on September 25, 2025, the Wing of Zion took a number of detours crossed the Mediterranean in order to stay mostly above water and enter the Atlantic through the Strait of Gibraltar.

The itinerary added about 400 kilometers to the normal flight length from Tel Aviv to New York.

Since then, however, Netanyahu has begun flying a more direct route over the European continent. His flight continued to avoid Spain, and he avoided Slovenia when leaving Hungary.

The Spanish government of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is one of the most critical of Israel’s war in Gaza and has said it will implement the ICC orders. Slovenia strongly supported the ICC and banned Netanyahu from entering its territory the day after one of his flights across Europe.

But Netanyahu flew over several European countries that are signatories to the Rome Statute (the treaty that established the ICC), including France, Italy and Greece.

Only France has publicly said it has given permission for the flights.

The flight path Netanyahu’s plane followed on Tuesday was a classic Great Circle route (the shortest possible distance) from Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.

The flight path published by Flight Aware showed that the aircraft flew over nine European countries, including Turkey.