In advance of the Arms Trade Treaty informal preparatory meetings, ATT states parties are being asked to consider ongoing arms transfers to Israel in light of Article 6 of the Treaty.
Article 6 prohibits a State Party from transferring conventional arms covered by the Treaty, if the Party knows that the arms or items would be used in the commission of war crimes, including grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, attacks against civilian objects, and “other war crimes as defined by international agreements to which it is a Party.”
Mounting evidence shows that arms transfers to Israel are used to commit grave crimes against civilians and the environment on which their survival depends.
Read the UCLA’s School of Law briefing to ATT States Parties: Environmental Destruction as War Crimes in the Situation in Gaza