from thefreeonline on 13th Feb 2024 info from English.aawsat
A Dutch court has blocked the exports, citing risk of human rights violations in Gaza- Exports an insult to 1000’s of children murdered by Israeli bombing
File photo: A Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jet, June 22, 2022. Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP
Finally some sanction has been approved by Euroopean elites supporting Israeli government genocide in Gaza. This is in contrast to Russia’s invasion of eastern Ukraine when all European states outdid each other in following the US and taking all imaginable sanctions. But in this war they have followed the US in supporting and selling weapons to the Israeli aggressors. Israel isn’t even penalized in sports or Eurovision.
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Responding to a lawsuit launched by several human rights groups in December, a lower court ruled that the sale of fighter-jet parts was a political decision. The appeals court disagreed.
The Netherlands “must prohibit the export of military goods if there is a clear risk of serious violations of the humanitarian law of war,” the judges said on Monday.
The Dutch government might be allowed to export F-35 parts to Israel in the future, but only on condition that they are not used in operations in Gaza, according to Presiding Judge Bas Boele.
“We hope this ruling will strengthen international law in other countries so that the citizens of Gaza are also protected by international law,” said Michiel Servaes, director of Oxfam Novib, one of the groups involved in the litigation.
Dutch Court Orders Halt to Export of F-35 Jet Parts to Israel
The Dutch government must comply with the court order within seven days. Its request to suspend the order pending appeal to the Supreme Court has been rejected.
However the Appeals Court in The Hague ruled on Monday that the Netherlands must stop sending Israel spare parts for its F-35 fighter jets, saying that there is a risk that the US-made aircraft are being used for “serious violations of international humanitarian law” against Palestinians.
The parts in question are owned by the US, but the Netherlands houses a regional warehouse where they are stored and sent to countries that comprise the F-35 consortium. Israel has received at least one shipment since October last year.
“The delivery of US F-35 parts to Israel in our view is not unjustified,” said Trade Minister Geoffrey van Leeuwen, adding that the jets allow West Jerusalem to defend itself from threats “from Iran, Yemen, Syria and Lebanon.”
An estimated 1,200 Israelis died in a series of raids by Hamas in the vicinity of Gaza on October 7, most of them military or reservists, (and an unknown number of them victims of the Israelis themselves in a brutal chaotic attempt to kill Palestinian escapees and stop captive taking.)
The Israeli government, including the extreme far right included to avoid a Netanyahu party defeat, responded by declaring “war” on Hamas, the Palestinian government of Gaza, deeming all to be terrorists to be exterminated and launching a total war offensive against the enclave.
Most of Gaza’s two million residents have since been displaced and their homes destroyed by carpet bombing with more than 28,000 Palestinians confirmed killed and at least 7,000 more still disappeared in the onslaught, mostly under the rubble of their neighbourhoods, according to local authorities.
Israel has spouted a litany of obvious lies, swallowed by Israeli media, whipping up many people accustomed to impunity into a fascist frenzy.
Israel denies committing any war crimes or any violations of humanitarian law in Gaza in front of photos of 12,000 innocent murdered children. .
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is still resisting a long series of criminal charges against him, has insisted that the nearly 30,000 Palestinians killed are “terrorists” and Hamas fighters.
But a growing section of Israelis is by now unconvinced by the Netanyahu regime’s lie machine and demonstrating daily against him clinging to power by the refusal to get the remaining hostages freed by declaring a ceasefire and insistence on an impossible “Final Solution”
Last month, the International Court of Justice ordered West Jerusalem to “prevent acts of genocide” in its war against Hamas, acting on a complaint pressed by South Africa.
Human rights groups have cited the ruling in calls to block the sale of weapons to Israel, and shown that the order has already been defied with hundreds of killings and is about to be buried with a nazi style pogrom in Rafah..
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