Israel requires more ammunition and artillery shells to continue the genocide. And Australia is supplying them.
It appears that Germany is key in providing munitions according to this report by Berlin researchers Forensic Architecture.
We assert that Australian made 155mm shells from the German-run (Rheinmetall) factory at Maryborough, Queensland are providing shells to Germany which are being directly transferred to the IDF in Israel to bomb Gaza and perpetrate the genocide.
Researcher Shir Hever discusses the importance of this report here in this interview with Zain Raza.
In answer to a question on notice to the Queensland Government regarding production at the Maryborough Rheinmetall Nioa factory, the Treasurer answered:
From the defense of Germany at the ICJ we learned something: the German government said that it plans to sell 10,000 120mm tank shells to Israel, but not from Rheinmetall directly, but rather from the warehouses of the German army. In the defense, the lawyers said that the military did not authorize the sale.
There is a shortage in these shells around the world, which require special materials and special tools to make. So by importing 155mm shells from other countries (Rheinmetall has subsidiaries in Spain, South Africa and more, not just in Australia), the German military can fill its stores and sell the surplus to Israel.
This arrangement makes it possible for Germany to replenish its munition stores, and sell surplus ammunition to Israel.
It’s unclear how the artillery munitions are transported. It appears mostly by sea. But potentially some by air.
“In fact, according to one senior Pentagon official, the quantity of weapons sent was so significant that the Department of Defense sometimes struggled to find sufficient cargo aircraft to deliver the systems.”