{"id":668531,"date":"2026-10-29T05:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T05:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/668531\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T05:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T05:06:13","slug":"united-airlines-illegally-brought-idf-parts-through-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/668531\/","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines illegally brought IDF parts through Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">United Airlines illegally transported US government-supplied gun components for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) through Irish territory this month.<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"gh-feature-image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/dobua.jpg\" alt=\"United Airlines illegally transported IDF gun parts through Ireland\"\/><\/p>\n<p>United Airlines illegally transported US government-supplied gun components for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) through Irish territory this month.<\/p>\n<p>Shannon Airport <a href=\"https:\/\/snnairportgroup.ie\/2026\/shannon-airport-celebrates-long-standing-partnership-with-united-airlines\/?ref=ontheditch.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">celebrated<\/a> its &#8220;long-standing partnership&#8221; with United Airlines earlier this year, with its director saying it had \u201cdelivered lasting benefits for the region&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The 3 October Newark-Tel Aviv <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flightaware.com\/live\/flight\/UAL90\/history\/20261004\/0300Z\/KEWR\/LLBG?ref=ontheditch.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">passenger flight <\/a>carried more than two tonnes of Elbit Systems military parts for Israeli forces over Donegal.<\/p>\n<p>The parts included a gunner collimator and a gunner day optical sight, components used to fire from the IDF\u2019s armoured tanks.<\/p>\n<p>The shipment was supplied under the US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dsca.mil\/Programs\/Defense-Trade-and-Arms-Transfers\/Foreign-Military-Sales?ref=ontheditch.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Foreign Military Sales programme<\/a> through which the US government provides cost-price defence articles to Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The carriage of munitions of war through Irish sovereign airspace without authorisation from the transport minister is an indictable criminal offence under Irish air navigation law. <\/p>\n<p>Government has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oireachtas.ie\/en\/debates\/question\/2025-09-30\/92\/?ref=ontheditch.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">repeatedly refused to enforce<\/a> the legislation for more than two years.<\/p>\n<p>The Ditch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontheditch.com\/united-airlines-illegally-transported\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously reported<\/a> that United Airlines illegally transported ammunition handling systems and other military parts \u2013 totalling more than two tonnes \u2013 through Irish airspace in August last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United Airlines illegally transported US government-supplied gun components for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) through Irish territory this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-668531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}