Sunday 3 August 2014

Documents Reveal UK Help Israel Attack Weapon Strip

London - The United States Congress has just approved funding US $ 225 million or around Rp 2.6 trillion to help the defense system Iron Dome anti-missile or in confronting Israeli rocket attacks from Hamas.


United States reportedly is not the only country that help Israel, but also the UK. A document revealed that the British helped the Israeli military aggression on Gaza with combat arms sales.

In documents obtained Weapons Enforcement Administration Sales, Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) mentioned that the military weapons used by Israel to attack Gaza since July 8, 2014 and was made ​​in England.

As reported Independent.co.uk, Sunday (03/08/2014), mentioned that 130 companies manufacture of weapons has received official permission to assemble military equipment since 2010, who then sold to Israel.

Two of these companies are known as the supplier of the Hermes drone drone, called Israel as the "backbone" of their military mission.

"Hermes drone aircraft is one of the most widely used of Israel, especially in the Gaza border," the report said.

Aircraft manufacturing company, BAE Systems is also reported to have contributed to the supplier of the basic framework for the Israeli F16s warplanes before the year 2002, but BAE systems today confirmed that it has stopped the delivery framework to Israel.

In addition it also revealed a number of military cooperation agreement between the companies engaged in the field of defense UK with Israel.

"Israel is one of the biggest consumer in the persenjaan British military," wrote Independent.co.uk.

However, the current UK government confirms that it is considering a number of repeated Israeli military cooperation agreement due to the conditions in Gaza are getting worse, including the collapse of thousands of lives.

"We will take into account the deal, including the sale of weapons permit because the risk is very severe, and to anticipate the things that trigger provocation and widen the conflict," a statement from the British government, told Al-Arabiya.

Israeli attacks in Gaza continues to this day. Hamas continues to also block. The death toll has reached 1,650 people. Most of the casualties were civilians, including many women and children. While in Israel, as many as 63 soldiers and 3 civilians have been killed.