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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
John Psaropoulos

Israel’s Gaza war threatens to shut down West’s fifth-gen fighter programme

Dutch soldiers stand guard near a Royal Netherlands Air Force F-35 at Graf Ignatievo Air Base, Bulgaria, April 14, 2022. A Dutch court ruling banning the export of F-35 parts to Israel threatens to upend the West's use of the aircraft [Stoyan Nenov/Reuters]

The Dutch government is urgently appealing a court decision that would bring global production of the West’s fifth-generation fighter jet to a halt.

A first instance decision on Monday gave the government a week to stop exporting parts for the F-35 stealth fighter-bomber, which Israel is using in its bombardment of the Gaza strip, where its war has killed more than 28,000 Palestinians, a majority of them women and children.

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