Secrets of the weapons trade
By Michelle Fahy

Excerpt

By 23 February, UN legal experts were calling for arms exports to Israel to cease immediately because ‘any transfer of weapons or ammunition to Israel that would be used in Gaza is likely to violate international humanitarian law’. The experts specifically included weapon parts in this statement.

On 4 April, the UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution that included a demand for an arms embargo on Israel.

Canada, the Netherlands, Japan, Spain and Belgium have already suspended arms sales to Israel. Yet the Australian government remains silent on its position, apart from its misleading mantra that Australia is not exporting ‘weapons’

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