A district court on Monday will hear a case against the Dutch state launched by human rights organizations which say the export of F35 fighter jet parts to Israel makes the Netherlands complicit in alleged war crimes in Gaza, The Hague court said on Thursday.
The organizations, which include the Dutch branches of Amnesty International and Oxfam, argue that "the Netherlands is contributing to wide scale and serious violations of humanitarian law by Israel in Gaza" by allowing shipments of reserve parts for Israeli fighter jets while the conflict continues.
The Dutch minister of defense told ANP news agency she would not comment on the case ahead of the court proceedings.
Earlier this month, Dutch NRC newspaper cited government sources as saying that the Netherlands had allowed a shipment of reserve parts for Israeli F35 jets despite warnings from legal advisors that such jets were being used in large scale bombing in the Gaza strip, which could violate international law.
Until the current truce Israel had bombarded the Gaza strip for seven weeks in response to the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas terrorists, in which Hamas killed 1,200 people and took 240 hostages.