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Australia has exported F-35 fighter jet parts directly to Israel

Leaked documents seen by independent investigative outlet Declassified Australia reveal that Australia has exported F-35 joint strike fighter parts directly to Israel as recently as this week.

Michelle Fahy, Undue Influence, Jul 12, 2025

Parts and components for Israel’s F-35 fighter jets are being exported directly to Israel from Australia, despite repeated government denials of the trade, Declassified Australia revealed in a significant story it published last night.

These exports present clear evidence of the Australian government’s complicity in Israel’s war crimes.

Declassified Australia reported that it had sighted shipping records detailing goods sent on two recent flights from Sydney to Tel Aviv. It is unclear whether the documents simply show two individual shipments or are a glimpse of a bigger Australian direct export trade of F-35 parts to Israel.

This is the first concrete information of parts for Israel’s F-35 fighter jets being sent directly from Australia to Israel, some 21 months after 7 October 2023. It is evidence the Australian government can no longer deny or disguise.

Israel’s F-35s have been used to commit war crimes in Gaza, including airstrikes on designated safe zones that have killed hundreds of people. The fighter jets were also deployed during Israel’s recent illegal airstrikes on Iran.

Read the full story at Declassified Australia

Refresher: our 2024 reporting on Australia’s F-35 exports

Last year Undue Influence reported extensively on Australia’s export of parts and components into Lockheed Martin’s F-35 global supply chain and the Australian government’s misleading public commentary around this.

Most of our reports were also published by Declassified Australia, which was established in 2021 by investigative journalists Peter Cronau and Antony Loewenstein to publish in-depth and largely hidden stories that reveal the reality of Australia’s relationships with both democracies and dictatorships.

Our reporting below is referred to in the latest Declassified Australia article.

Buck-passing inside the murky arms trade

Michelle Fahy, August 11, 2024………………………………………………………. https://undueinfluence.substack.com/p/australia-has-exported-f-35-fighter?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=297295&post_id=168059187&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ise1&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

July 12, 2025 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized