Dutch court bars suit to end arms sales to Israel
A Dutch court has blocked a lawsuit that aimed to stop the government from exporting arms to Israel over the regime’s onslaught on Gaza.
The court in The Hague dismissed the lawsuit saying it saw no reason to impose a total ban on such exports.
“There is no reason to impose a total ban on the export of military and dual-use goods on the state,” said the court. “All claims are dismissed.”
The action was lodged by a group of pro-Palestine groups.
They argued that Israel was using Dutch weapons to wage the war on Gaza.
Their lawyer argued that the regime is guilty of genocide and apartheid.
“Israel is guilty of genocide and apartheid” and “is using Dutch weapons to wage war,” said Wout Albers, a lawyer representing the NGOs, during the hearings.
The ruling goes against a decision by the Hague-based International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former minister of military affairs.
The court took the step during hearings into war crimes committed by the regime in Gaza.
Ireland has become the latest in the growing list of countries that joined South Africa in its case that accuses the regime of Israel of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip. Brazil, Turkey, Malaysia, Chile, Spain, Pakistan, and Syria have joined the lawsuit.
South Africa filed the case at the top court of the United Nations in December 2023, arguing that Israel violated the 1948 Genocide Convention.
The court, seated in The Hague, ruled in January that “there is a plausible risk of genocide in Gaza and the continuing serious harm to civilians since then.”
The World Court ordered Tel Aviv to take all measures to prevent genocide in Gaza but stopped short of ordering a ceasefire.
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