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2025-05-15 Britain
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‘’Rights’’ groups take UK government to court over supply of F-35 parts to Israel
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Sorry — I forgot to add the scare quotes last night. That’s “rights”. They’re actually “wrongs” groups.
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[IsraelTimes] Challenge to High Court claims London’s decision to supply fighter jet components makes it complicit in alleged crimes against Palestinians in Gaza
Human rights groups launched a court fight Tuesday challenging the UK government’s decision to supply parts for F-35 fighter jets, saying they are being used by Israel in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
in violation of international law.
The legal challenge in the High Court in London alleges that the government is breaking domestic and international law and is complicit in atrocities against Paleostinians by allowing essential components for the warplanes to be supplied to Israel.
| Paleostinian human rights organization al-Haq and the UK-based Global Legal Action Network, which brought the legal challenge, say the components are indirectly supplied to Israel through the global spare parts supply chain. |
"There’s such clear evidence of the use of weapons parts from the UK being used in war crimes, including in genocide," Sacha Deshmukh, chief executive of Amnesty International UK, said at a rally outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London. "Until this case reaches its judgment, right now as we speak, there are significant human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
violations being delivered by British-made weapons and bombs."
The government said in September that it was suspending about 30 of 350 existing export licenses for equipment deemed to be for use in the conflict in Gaza because of a "clear risk" that the items could be used to "commit or facilitate a serious violation of international humanitarian law." Equipment included parts for helicopters and drones.
But an exemption was made for some licenses related to components of F-35 fighter jets, which have been linked to Israel’s bombardment campaign against Hamas
 ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
in the Gaza Strip.
Rights groups argue that the United Kingdom shouldn’t continue to export parts through what they call a "deliberate loophole," given the government’s own assessment of Israel’s compliance with international humanitarian law.
Paleostinian human rights organization al-Haq and the UK-based Global Legal Action Network, which brought the legal challenge, say the components are indirectly supplied to Israel through the global spare parts supply chain.
Al-Haq had its offices in Ramallah shuttered by Israel in 2022, 10 months after the Defense Ministry designated al-Haq and several other Paleostinian groups as terrorist organizations over their alleged links to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine (PFLP), a leftist terror group. The international community has said Israel has failed to provide convincing evidence to back up its claims.
Said by those who are determined not to be convinced by any amount of the truth. But y’all do you — we know what you are. UK officials have argued that stopping the export of F-35 fighter jet components would endanger international peace and security.
Compared to major arms suppliers such as the US and Germany, British firms sell a relatively small amount of weapons and components to Israel.
The Campaign Against Arms Trade nonprofit group estimates that the UK supplies about 15 percent of the components in the F-35 stealth combat aircraft, including its laser targeting system.
"British-made F-35s are dropping multi-ton bombs on the people of Gaza, which the UN secretary-general has described as a ’killing field,'" said Charlotte Andrews-Briscoe, a lawyer for the Global Legal Action Network.
"The UK government has expressly departed from its own domestic law in order to keep arming Israel. This decision is of continuing and catastrophic effect," she added.
The hearing is expected to last four days, and a decision is expected at a later date.
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