Gaza Herald — A London-based legal organization has formally called on British police to investigate senior figures linked to Elbit Systems UK over their role in crimes committed during Israel’s ongoing genocide on the Gaza Strip.
The Public Interest Law Centre (PILC), backed by the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT), submitted a detailed complaint to the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command on Thursday, urging it to open a criminal investigation.
According to the filing, the request targets four current and former British directors of Elbit Systems UK, calling for scrutiny into their “possible complicity in war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide in Gaza.” The complaint was submitted on behalf of a Palestinian woman residing in the United Kingdom whose close relatives remain trapped in Gaza under Israeli bombardment.
The legal submission asks the Metropolitan Police’s War Crimes Unit to examine whether decisions made by Elbit Systems UK and its UK-based subsidiaries, including the export of drone engines, targeting technologies, and other military systems to Israel, could constitute aiding, abetting, or otherwise facilitating serious violations of international humanitarian law.
CAAT has for years documented the role of Elbit Systems in Israel’s military operations, highlighting the involvement of its UK subsidiaries in supplying equipment used by the Israeli army.
“Our client has watched from the UK as her community in Gaza has been systematically destroyed,” PILC said in a statement. “She has witnessed her loved ones, and countless others, subjected to mass killing, forced displacement, starvation, and devastation on an unimaginable scale.”
In its own statement, CAAT asserted that Israel’s genocide in Gaza “would not be possible without Elbit Systems,” noting that the company is Israel’s largest arms manufacturer and that Israel is its single biggest market. CAAT added that Elbit supplies approximately 85 percent of the combat drones used by the Israeli military.
The complaint represents one of the most direct legal challenges in the UK seeking accountability for corporate involvement in Israel’s war on Gaza, amid growing international pressure to address complicity in grave violations of international law.
