Overview

• CGT union stevedores at Fos-sur-Mer refused to load 19 pallets of ammunition belt links made by Marseille-based Eurolinks onto a vessel bound for Haifa
• Investigative maritime data show this is the third shipment of similar French military components to Israel this year following April and May deliveries
• The French Armed Forces Ministry says the links are assembled under licence in Israel and then re-exported to countries including France
• Amnesty International France warned that continued arms transfers risk rendering France complicit in alleged war crimes and genocide in Gaza
• Hard-left and Socialist leaders such as Manuel Bompard and Olivier Faure praised the dockworkers and intensified calls on President Macron to halt all arms exports to Israel