Historia
Australia: Port protests against an Israeli shipping company and NGOs lawsuit highlight the government's "secretive" arms trade and licensing exports; Incl. Co. comment
Protests at shipping ports and a unique court case filed by Palestinian and Australian NGOs are bringing attention to Australian weapons exports to Israel amid the war on Gaza, a trade that critics describe as secretive and unaccountable. Nation-wide protests have been staged from Sydney's Botany Bay to Port Melbourne, with demonstrators aiming to stop Israeli national shipping company ZIM from sending military goods to Israel. On 22 November, the port protest was allegedly forcibly broken up by the police.