Aid groups sue Denmark over arms exports to Zionists

COPENHAGEN: Four humanitarian organizations on Tuesday said they were suing Denmark to get it to stop its weapons exports to the Zionist entity. The lawsuit was filed against the national police and the foreign ministry.

“Denmark should not be sending weapons to the Zionist entity when there is a reasonable suspicion that it is committing war crimes in Gaza,” Tim Whyte, the secretary general of Action Aid Denmark, one of the organizations behind the lawsuit, said in a statement. “We need to get the court’s word on Denmark’s responsibility,” he said.

Investigative media Danwatch in November revealed that the Zionist entity’s F-35s were equipped with parts made by the Danish group Terma. The three other organizations behind the legal action were the Danish branches of Amnesty International, Oxfam and Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq.

The lawsuit came almost a month after a Dutch court ordered the Netherlands to stop exporting F-35 parts to the Zionist entity. In mid-February, a Dutch appeals court judge ruled that there was “a clear risk that serious violations of humanitarian law of war are committed in the Gaza Strip with (the Zionist entity’s) F-35 fighter planes.”

Several similar lawsuits are underway in other countries, including in Canada where the foreign and justice ministers have been targeted. But London’s High Court last month rejected a similar petition to suspend British arms exports to the entity.

The Zionist bombardment and ground offensive on Gaza has killed 31,112 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to Gaza’s health ministry. The entity claims it’s in response to the October 7 Hamas attack that resulted in about 1,160 deaths in the entity, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count. Hamas also took around 250 hostages, dozens of whom were released during a week-long truce in November. The Zionist entity believes 99 hostages remain alive in Gaza, along with the bodies of 31.