American logistics giant FedEx has been targeted in France by a legal complaint alleging “complicity in the crime of genocide” over claims it transported parts for Israeli aircraft involved in bombing Gaza.
The French Jewish Union for Peace (UJFP), an anti-Zionist group, said it had filed the complaint against FedEx’s French subsidiary for “the transport and delivery of essential combat aircraft components from the United States to Israel via France.”
Those parts were used “to maintain and repair F-35 combat aircraft used by the Israeli air force” over the Gaza Strip, it added in the document filed with anti-terrorism prosecutors and seen by AFP.
FedEx told AFP: “We do not make any international deliveries of weapons or ammunition.”
Israel has repeatedly denied allegations of genocide in Gaza. It has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas, including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques.
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The UJFP said it based its case on a recent report by campaign group Urgence Palestine (Palestine Emergency), which catalogued 117 cargoes that it said transited through Paris via FedEx’s French subsidiary between April and October last year.
Illustrative: An Israeli Air Force F-35I fighter jet prepares to take off for strikes in Iran, in a handout photo published on March 19, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)
Of those, 22 went straight on to Israel, including three on FedEx planes registered in France, according to the complaint, whose authors claim that FedEx “must have known the contents.”
Across the border in Belgium, federal prosecutors confirmed to AFP that they had opened a probe into one of the deliveries, which transited via Liege airport on June 20, 2025.
Israel has said it will end all weapons imports from France after diplomatic differences over Paris’s September recognition of the State of Palestine.
Thomas Nayla, who coordinated the complaint against FedEx, called for a “total embargo” on the delivery of military components from the French side.
Rights groups in various countries have taken action aimed at halting the delivery of F-35 parts or weapons to Israel. The Netherlands in 2024 banned the delivery of F-35 parts to Israel, while Britain’s High Court in 2025 rejected a similar attempt to stop supplies, though London has suspended other weapons export licenses to Israel.
Since an October 10 ceasefire, both the Israeli military and Hamas have accused one another of breaching the truce, which followed two years of war triggered when the Palestinian terror group led an invasion of southern Israel on October 7, 2023, that killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and saw 251 hostages abducted to Gaza.
Rights groups and NGOs, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have accused Israel of carrying out a genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 72,000 people in the Strip have been killed during the war — including over 600 since the October 2025 ceasefire — though the toll does not differentiate between civilians and combatants.
The Israeli military believes that Hamas’s overall toll is largely accurate, with IDF officials estimating that two to three civilians were killed for every dead terror operative.
In 2018, UJFP was ordered to pay back state subsidies that it received to combat racism but had used instead to accuse the Jewish state of causing anti-Semitism.
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