TITLE: What to look out for at Eurosatory, Europe’s biggest defense show
https://www.defensenews.com/digital-show-dailies/eurosatory/2024/06/16/what-to-look-out-for-at-eurosatory-europes-biggest-defense-show/
EXCERPT: Europe’s largest defense show kicks off in Paris on Monday, and this year’s edition of the Eurosatory exhibition will reflect feedback from two years of war in Ukraine, said Charles Beaudouin, the retired major general and former head of the French Army’s equipment office who is running the show in his role as CEO of COGES Events.
The 2024 show takes “the full measure” of the conflict, after a 2022 edition marked by the shock of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Beaudouin said in an interview with Defense News. European governments have raised their defense budgets “so the business is there,” and military planners attending the show will be focused on drones, anti-drone systems, air defense, long-range fires and mine clearing.
Exhibition space is fully booked with more than 2,000 exhibitors compared with 1,750 in 2022, and the show is on track for a record number of visitors, with weekly registrations in early June more than 40% above the prior edition, which had around 32,000 unique visitors.
TITLE: Court ruling bans Israeli nationals and companies from major arms expo in Paris
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/06/17/court-ruling-bans-israeli-nationals-and-companies-from-major-arms-expo-in-paris
EXCERPT: Israel has been barred from participating in the international defence expo in Paris, Eurosatory 2024, after a court ruled on Saturday that all Israeli participants will be excluded.
The French district court in Bobigny stated it ruled on the grounds that Israeli companies and their representatives might act "as intermediaries for Israeli arms firms" in one of the world's largest arms shows.
It directed the organisers to display the decision at the entrances of the Villepinte Exhibition Centre, located near Paris' prestigious arms fair.
Eurosatory 2024 organisers had previously indicated that Israeli citizens could still attend the fair, despite an earlier decision by government authorities in May barring Israeli companies.
A court had previously ruled in favour of four NGOs — including the Association France Palestine Solidarité, Attac, and Stop Arming Israel — that requested Israeli companies, as well as the participation of employees or representatives of the country, be banned in the show.
But a pro-Palestinian organisation filed a petition challenging the concession, arguing that cancelling the pavilion did not guarantee Israelis' absence at the event.
The event organiser Coges, led by Charles Beaudoin, has said they would appeal the latest court decision “as soon as possible,” but the exhibition already began Monday and runs until Friday.
Seventy-four Israeli firms were set to exhibit weapons at the fairground event north of Paris near the international airport before the ongoing legal battle ensued.
Reacting to Saturday's ruling, Elik Cohen, vice president of sales at Cylinx, an Israeli company developing communication products for security agencies that planned to attend the exhibition, lamented the decision to exclude Israel.
"This is a very important exhibition in Europe, perhaps the most important one, and we have been exhibiting there regularly for years," said Cohen.
"The main problem is not our absence from the exhibition, as there are other exhibitions, but that we prepared for it, and it was cancelled for us at the last moment," added Cohen.
Last month, the French Defence Ministry deemed it unsuitable to host Israeli companies at the Paris show due to French President Emmanuel Macron's call for the cessation of Israel's operations in Rafah.
It ordered Coges Event to ban the Israeli defence industry from setting up a stand at the show, saying that “the conditions are no longer right to host Israeli companies at the Paris show, given that the French president is calling for the cessation of IDF operations in Rafah.”
TITLE: Israel says its arms exports hit record sales amid war on Gaza
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-says-its-arms-exports-hit-record-sales-amid-war-gaza
EXCERPT: Israel's defence ministry said in a statement on Monday that its arms exports for 2023 hit a record in sales, as Israel's war on Gaza enters its ninth month and as the country's military continues to be supplied with hundreds of millions of dollars in American weapons.
The report by the defence ministry said that the total exports of Israeli arms reached $13.1bn in 2022, an increase of $500m from the previous year and double the amount of exports from five years ago.
More than a third of the sales comprised missiles, rockets and air-defence systems, with one of the biggest contracts of 2023 being with Germany, which signed a deal to purchase the Arrow 3 long-range air defence system for around $4bn.
"While our industries are primarily focused on providing the defence establishment with the capabilities to support our troops and defend our citizens, they are also continuing to pursue areas of cooperation and exports to international partners," Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said in a statement.
Roughly half, 48 percent, of all sales went to the Asia and Pacific region, while Europe accounted for 35 percent of sales, and North America accounted for nine percent.
The figures were released by the defence ministry as a growing number of countries have begun to boycott or suspend the purchase of weaponry from Israel, citing the country's ongoing destruction of Gaza and killing of tens of thousands of Palestinians there.
Colombia announced it would be pausing its purchases of Israeli arms, after its president, Gustavo Petro, called Israel's actions in Gaza a genocide.
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