Carte des Commerces
The fact that weapons transit through Belgium or that components and spare parts are delivered to Israel is not trivial. Even though Belgium does not directly authorize the export of weapons that would "strengthen Israel's military capabilities," components for aircraft, missiles, and drones are indeed produced in Belgium, and Israel's largest arms company has subsidiaries in Belgium. Can we really absolve ourselves of their involvement in the war crimes committed by the zionist government?
Elbit (OIP & BATS)
Safran
BMT
Syensqo
Thales
Caterpillar
Challenge
Maersk
ScioTeq
Sabca
Elbit (OIP & BATS)
BATS (Angleur), OIP Land Systems (Tournai), and OIP Sensor (Oudenaarde) are wholly owned by Elbit Systems, Israel's largest arms company. Elbit Systems produces 85% of Israel's drones, including the infamous Hermes 450 drone. It is the industrial arm of the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
In Flanders, 17 export licenses for military goods to Israel were granted to OIP Elbit Systems in Oudenaarde between October 2023 and the end of 2024, for a total value of €22.7 million. These mainly involved systems that allow firearms to aim more precisely, such as sights and equipment for thermal images. These are tools that serve to murder innocent people.
Currently, OIP exports to Israel mainly end up in the hands of the Belgian army. BATS markets Elbit Systems' technology.
Elbit Systems sows death: it cannot operate in Belgium!
Safran Aero Booster
Safran Aero Boosters, 31% owned by the Walloon government, produces components for the American F-15 and F-16 warplanes in Herstal. These aircraft end up in the hands of the Israeli army and are used to bomb Palestine. The Walloon government and Safran must not allow parts manufactured in Belgium to end up in the hands of the Israeli army!
Elsewhere, the French group Safran is also complicit in the ongoing genocide: it sells its technologies to the Israeli government, particularly for its Iron Dome, and co-develops technologies with several Israeli arms companies. This group should not be able to operate in Belgium as long as it is complicit in genocide!
In Belgium, Safran has three operational sites: a production site for engines used for the F-15, a test center in Liers, and Safran Aircraft Engine Services in Zaventem and Steenokkerzeel.
Safran must cease its complicity in the genocide!
BMT Aerospace
The BMT Group produces gears, gearboxes, transmissions and actuators for the global aerospace industry. BMT Aerospace produces components for the American F-15 and F-16 warplanes, as does Safran. These aircraft end up in the hands of the Israeli army, and are used to bomb Palestine and Lebanon. In Belgium, BMT has three sites south of Bruges (Oostkamp, Beernem and Alter).
We demand that BMT refuses to take part in the ongoing genocide!
Syensqo
Syensqo, a spin-off of Solvay, sells its products to UAV Tactical Systems Ltd (co-owned by Elbit and Thales) and allows it to produce drones for Israel. Syensqo claims that the Hermes 450 drones it helped build are not armed. Yet these drones were used in the bombing of a humanitarian convoy in Gaza!
Syensqo has production sites in 30 different countries, but its majority shareholder is Belgian and its headquarters are based in Zaventem.
The Belgian company must end this partnership immediately!
Thales
The French group Thales sold €2 millions worth of pilot assistance systems for armed drones to the Israeli arms industry. The equipment provided is presented as "non-lethal," but without it, Israeli drones simply could not fly. Disclose's investigation shows that these drones were permanently deployed alongside special forces and infantry at least until the January 2025 "ceasefire".
It owns UAV Tactical Systems Ltd with Elbit, which manufactures drones for the Israeli army. UAV Tactical Systems produces the Watchkeeper drone, based on Elbit's Hermes 450 model. This could be considered laundering Israeli military technology: Thales benefits from technologies tested and developed on Palestinian civilians to resell them to third countries with the help of Elbit. On top of this, UAV Tactical Systems itself exports drone components to Israel.
Elsewhere in the world, the French group Thales is also complicit in the ongoing genocide, supplying essential electronic components for the Hermes 900 drone used to bomb Gaza.
The group owns a weapons factory in Herstal.
The Thales group must stop being complicit in the ongoing genocide!
Caterpillar
Caterpillar is a long-time supplier to the Israeli army. The group provides a variety of heavy engineering machinery, including various wheel loaders, armored excavators, skid steers, and several models of the D9 armored bulldozer series (D9R, D9N, D9L, and D9T) that are destroying the Palestinian territories
D9 armored bulldozers have supported the Israeli armed forces for many years in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. These bulldozers are used to destroy buildings and roads, disperse crowds, and build the walls surrounding the Palestinian territories. Caterpillar machines also help build illegal settlements in the Palestinian territories in the West Bank.
Caterpillar has a logistics center in Grimbergen.
Caterpillar must immediately stop being complicit in the ongoing genocide!
Challenge Handling
The Israeli company, based in Liège Airport, specializes in the freight of non-standard packages, including weapons. At least 70 tons of ammunition and explosives passed through Liège Airport via Challenge since the start of the Gaza offensive until May 2024, when the Walloon government signed a ministerial decree following civil society mobilization to stop transits. This decree prohibits any form of arms transit to Israel, even without transshipment, thus closing a loophole in the legislation exploited by Challenge to continue fueling the criminal Israeli regime. The Conseil d’Etat has just overturned this ban in Wallonia .
Furthermore, on a global scale, the Challenge group continues to transport weapons and is complicit in the ongoing genocide in Gaza!
The group must stop being complicit in the ongoing genocide!
Article vredesactie mentionning Challenge.
Maersk
Maersk is one of the world's largest shipping companies and sets the standard for the entire logistics industry. Without Maersk, Israel would not have the weapons it needs to commit its genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, as well as the massacres and bombings in Lebanon, Yemen, and Syria.
Mask off Maersk published a report proving Maersk delivered more than 2,000 shipments of military goods to Israel since October 7, 2023. Almost all of the shipments departed from the Port of Elizabeth in New Jersey (USA), transited through the Port of Algeciras in Spain, and finally arrived in Ashdod or Haifa in Israel. The cargo included armored vehicles used to transport Palestinian prisoners, as well as tanks, aircraft parts, and missile systems.
Maersk has several locations around the Port of Antwerp.
Maersk must stop being complicit to genocide!
ScioTeq
ScioTeq collaborates with Elbit, the Israeli arms company, by selling it military-grade displays produced in Kortrijk. ScioTeq has supplied displays for various American drones, such as the Predator and Reaper, as well as for Elbit's Hermes aircraft..
ScioTeq must end its collaboration with Elbit!
Article vredesactie mentionning ScioTeq.
Sabca
Sabca produced fighter aircraft components in Brussels, Lummen (Limburg), and Gosselies, which ended up in Israel. A new research site opened in 2022 in the Science Park in Louvain-la-Neuve in collaboration with UCLouvain (CP UCL-SABCA).
Sabca must reject any partnership with the Israeli colonial state!