UK’s sale of F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel is lawful, high court rules | UK news

The London Supreme Court decided, although the UK’s decision to allow export of F-35 fighter aircraft components to Israel in violation of international humanitarian law in Gaza.

The decision on Monday brings a 20-month war to Israel, including the sale of F-35 parts to a global spare parts pool that Israel can access, for banning all British arms sales. The case was brought with the Global Legal Action Network and the Human Rights Group Al-HAQ with the Human Rights Monitoring Organization, Amnesty International and Oxfam.

In a 72 -page decision on Monday, Lord Justice Males and Mrs. Justice Steyn said the courts should not intervene in a delicate political issue that is best left to ministers and parliament. The two judges said that the case was about a “much more focused problem” from the carving of F-35 pieces from a British export ban on a UK weapon export last September.

“This issue decides that the UK will decide that some of the components produced by the UK will be involved in international violations or ultimately emerge internationally, and ultimately withdraw from a certain multilateral defense cooperation that is considered reasonable for international peace and security, and ultimately, the possibility that it can be violated and ultimately violated in international violations.

“In our Constitution, the acute sensitive and political issue is the issue of execution that is not democratic parliament and ultimately democratic responsible for voters.”

The ministers claimed that the ban on the sale of parts would stop the entire F-35 program and had wider consequences for the security of NATO and Europe.

Judges seemed to have accepted the claim that British main supplier Lockheed Martin was not able to predict that sales were conditional to not supply to Israel and then to Israel. Lockheed Martin told the Ministry of Defense that this would be impossible, but the mode in the court documents said that “more studies will be needed to put the necessary logistics for the necessary logistics ve and this claimed that the mode was not applied.

After the United States, the UK is the second largest part of the global materials pool to Israel. The court adopted the claim that the government’s positive contribution to wider peace and security should be balanced against a clear risk of weapons used to make serious violations of IHL/IHRL. [international humanitarian law/international human rights law]”.

Reacting to the decision Al-HAQ Director Shawan Jabarin, the case has an impact on the public, he said. “Through the export of arms, civil society and human rights organizations have achieved a significant breakthrough by revealing serious government failures in facilitating international crimes against Palestinians, and we will continue until governments were held responsible, the dispute of Israel was challenged and justice was realized for the Palestinian people.”

British Human Rights Monitoring Organization Director Yasmine Ahmed said, ık We were incredibly disappointed by this decision. The British courts gave a green light to the government to continue to provide fatal F-35 fighter aircraft components by the Israeli army in Gaza, even in the face of genocide and other operations.

“In this case, the judicial postponement to the execution, despite the government and the court, abandoned the Palestinians in Gaza, who acknowledged that the UK equipment could be used to facilitate or execute the persecution against them, without reaching the protection of international law.”

The request for a judicial review of the UK weapon sales to Israel was first launched in December 2023, and the later Labor Party’s government shrinked in September when it withdrew 30 arms export licenses to Israel. The four-day hearing, which ended on May 16, focused not only on anything that took place under the conservative government, but only F-35 carvings.

Despite the outcome, the case revealed serious questions about the general value of the UK weapon export regime, and the parliamentary lawsuit ministers gathered to justify their sales of F-35.

In parliament, ministers for a long time, evaluating the existence of a genocide was for the authorized court of the parliament, but the court government’s lawyers claimed that there was no risk of genocide in Gaza. He also claimed that he did not see the deliberately targeted women and children in Gaza.

The Case Also Revealed that in Assessing Wheet the Israel Defense Forces Had Action Disproportionately, One of the Tests of A Breach of Ihl, The Government Evidmental Benchmark Was Set So High That By Septinber 2024 The Gaza of the Gaza, the Gasa of the Gasa of the Gasa, the Green of these individual incidents – and found only one possible international law violations. This possible violation was the World Central Kitchen attack on 1 April 2024, including six foreigners, seven aid workers.

This meant that the government could not find a possible violation of any incident that killed the Palestinians exclusively. The government has carried some of this evidence work to the Knowledge Strength Center. Al-HAQ argued in court that ministers should not only focus on potential reasons for a particular event, and that they should also look at the general pattern to gather a sense of proportion.

Government lawyers said they would not know enough about the conditions of certain events to come to an opinion on IHL violations. The arms export licenses of the UK legislation should not be granted a clear risk in which elements can be used to make serious violations of international humanitarian law ”.

F-35 jets are critical for the UK weapon industry. 16.2% of all sub-accounts in the F-35 program are estimated to be the second one of the USA to the UK-based manufacturers. Among the primary beneficiaries are the UAE Systems, which provides more than $ 5.7 billion in contracts on the production of fighter aircraft. Other contributing UK companies include Martin-Baker Aircraft Company, GE Aviation Systems and Ultra PCs.