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.

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.

Of those, 22 went straight on to Israel, including three on FedEx planes registered in France,........

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