Last Wednesday, workers at a port in southern France searched a cargo ship headed for Haifa — and found it carried 19 pallets of machine-gun parts. They blocked the shipment, refusing to be complicit in Israel’s war crimes.

This Wednesday, three months into Israel’s total blockade on Gaza, the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) union of port workers at Fos-sur-Mer, northwest of Marseille, announced they had set aside nineteen pallets of ammunition belt links from a cargo ship headed to Haifa. In a statement, they said: “The dockers and port workers of the Gulf of Fos will not participate in the ongoing genocide orchestrated by the Israeli government.”

While searching the cargo, they discovered two other containers, with canon parts manufactured by engineering firm Aubert & Duval, al

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