The Paris administrative court rejected a request filed by Amnesty International, which wished to urgently obtain the suspension of French arms deliveries to Israel. The judge declared himself incompetent and therefore dismissed the applicants' case.
The court must still rule at the beginning of next week on two similar requests, filed by other associations. The French section of Amnesty took legal action this week, alongside the Human Rights League, to try to force the government to suspend export licenses to Israel for certain war materials. More precisely, this procedure concerned export licenses for military equipment of categories ML5 which allows artillery to determine targets and ML15 used for imaging and radars. “No one disputes the seriousness of the situation in the Middle East”, but France's position is “balanced” since it called for a ceasefire, replied the representative of the Armed Forces, Vincent Droullé. France, he insisted, does not deliver weapons to Israel, but “components integrated into a weapons system with a purely defensive purpose”