The
Israeli High Court ruled on the petition Wednesday, however the
judges hearing the case had issued a gag order a day earlier.
Israel
has refused to stop selling arms to Myanmar even though the state has
been accused by the United Nations of "textbook ethnic
cleansing" of the minority Muslim Rohingya population.
A
group of activists in Israel filed a petition in the country’s High
Court of Justice demanding an end to the sales but a senior Israeli
official Shosh Shmueli said that the court should not interfere in
Israel's foreign relations.
While
the Israeli High Court is set to rule on the petition Wednesday, the
judges hearing the case had issued a gag order a day earlier at the
request of Israeli government officials, preventing the case from
being discussed in public.
In
recent years, Israeli arms companies have sold more than 100 battle
tanks, as well as patrol boats and light weapons to Myanmar’s
military.
The
Israeli company, TAR Ideal Concepts has also trained trained Burmese
forces in Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine, where the military
has used excessive force and violence against the Rohingyas.
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