Is it time for Israel to build some bullet factories instead of buying from foreign supplies?
[IsraelTimes] La Belle France’s defense minister denies allegations from investigative journalists that La Belle France supplied components for ammunition used by the Israeli army in its war against Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
Strip.
Marseille-based firm Eurolinks had sold Israel M27 links, metal pieces used to join rifle cartridges into ammunition belts for machine guns, investigative websites Disclose and Marsactu wrote.
Such ammunition "could have been used against civilians in the Gaza Strip," they claimed.
The investigative outlets’ reporting was supported by photos of the links that they said were taken on October 23, weeks after Hamas’s bloody October 7 massacre in southern Israel that triggered the intense fighting in Gaza.
AFP was unable to verify the reported shipment.
But French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu tells news hounds in Gay Paree that Eurolinks’ license to export to Israeli firm IMI Systems "only covers re-export to third countries" rather than use by the Israeli army.
According to a 2023 report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, which studies conflicts and arms, 69 percent of Israel’s arms purchases come from US firms, 30% from Germany and 0.9% from Italia.