Taking action against genocide and occupation
For two years, Israel has committed genocide before our eyes, killing at least 72,000 people and wounding 171,000. Palestinians have been deliberately starved, their homes destroyed (92% of buildings) and 94% of its hospitals destroyed. 1,722 humanitarian and health workers have lost their lives, as well as 260 journalists. The so-called ceasefire of October 2025 has been violated more than 500 times by Israel, and Belgium's sanctions are weak and not enforced, reinforcing the impunity of a genocidal state.
The new Council of Peace announced by Donald Trump will intensify colonial violence, a violence that doesn't even pretend to respect the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people.
Stop Arming Israel Belgium proposes to act directly in Belgium to disrupt an essential cog in this war machine: Elbit Systems.
Why target Elbit Systems?
Elbit Systems, the largest private Israeli company, is the industrial arm of the genocide in Palestine. In 2025, Elbit made 7 884 millions euros in revenue. Beyond weapons, Elbit is a major player in the digital surveillance of Palestinians, enabling totalitarian control of people. Its responsibility in war crimes has been documented by the International Court of Justice and by numerous human rights organizations. (1)
The links between Elbit and the Israeli army are well-known: revolving doors of its staff with the IDF, and distinctions received in 2024 for its "decisive impact in the war" (2), and for massive profits generated by the genocide in Palestine were underlined in the latest report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, called From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide.
Elbit/OIP : a pillar of the Israeli military-industrial complex in Europe
Elbit has three sites in Belgium, and its company OIP (Optronic Instruments & Products) is a strategic pivot in its expansion in Europe. This position is anchored in an Israeli soft power strategy, reducing the political margin of maneuver of European states. The reticence of the West to condemn the genocide in Gaza tragically shows the strength of this strategy.
Through OIP, Elbit supplies "field-tested" military equipment, tested on Palestinians — to Belgium and several other European countries, fueling an industrial and military dependency. (3) Through public contracts, Elbit supplies military systems to the Belgian army, including remotely operated turrets, optronic systems, night vision equipment, and other electronic subsystems. Belgium, through its army and government services, is a regular client of the Israeli defense industry.
OIP's former CEO, Freddy Versluys, has been described as "one of the great Belgian defense CEOs" (4), which demonstrated how deeply the company is embedded politically and economically in the country. OIP also maintains relationships with numerous stakeholders (universities, European aerospace research agencies, companies like Thales...)
An unacceptable structural complicityintolérable
Collaborating with Elbit means contributing to a military architecture of destruction and occupation. Belgium has started recognizing the problem, but is failing to act. Sanctions adopted in 2025 include measures to reduce military dependency on Israeli companies, but in reality, collaborations continue.
Target, isolate, and stopping partnerships
Stop Arming Israel Belgium calls on everyone to intensify actions to destabilize and isolate this key link of the Israeli death industry in Belgium.
- 1. Targeting the core : Elbit / OIP Let's focus our efforts on one actor to maximize our impact and send a clear message on the consequences of complicity in genocide and colonization in Palestine. Elbit/OIP is a central pillar of the Israeli military-industrial complex in Europe. Isolating Elbit weakens the entire infrastructure.
- Ending partnership networks Suppliers, subcontractors, partner institutions: these must all drop their links with Elbit. Every contract ended heightens the economic, political, and symbolical cost of Elbit's presence in Belgium.
- Building a people's arms embargo: It's time for a people's arms embargo to end contracts between Belgium and Elbit. Through continuous pressure and public exposure of these military and commercial links, we can heigthen the cost of any future cooperation with this company politically. We must demand sanctions be enforced.
- Force Elbit to close its subsidiary OIP in Belgium, and force its partners to break all partnerships with this company.
- End and military and commercial partnership with Elbit Systems, by excluding all forms of of public or private partnerships with its subsidiary.
- Suspend exports and imports of arms between Israel and Belgium, by demanding the strict enforcement of sanctions on Israel.
Let's stop the impunity!
We call on all of those that refuse complicity with genocide and occupation to join this call. Target, isolate and disrupt, until Elbit and its partners have no more space to act. Together, let's stop the Israeli war machine and end impunity!
Stop Arming Israel. Stop Elbit.
[1] See the UN report: From economy of occupation to economy of genocide
[2] IDF website
[3] See the analysis on OIP and the Israeli arms industry on the GRESEA website
[4] He also participated in a mission in Ukraine with de Wever, Prévot and Francken, and visited an Audi Forest site to eventually purchase it.
[2] IDF website
[3] See the analysis on OIP and the Israeli arms industry on the GRESEA website
[4] He also participated in a mission in Ukraine with de Wever, Prévot and Francken, and visited an Audi Forest site to eventually purchase it.