Union leaders in Italy have warned that handling weapons shipments for zion*st colony constitutes complicity in war crimes.

Workers in the Italian port of Genoa have blocked passage of a Saudi vessel carrying weapons shipments bound for the colony.

The Bahri Yanbu, operated by Saudi shipping firm Bahri, had arrived in Genoa port from the US. Routine inspections revealed that the ship was carrying weapons and ammunition for Israel after 40 dock workers boarded the vessel.

“We don’t work for war,” said Jose Nivoi from the Autonomous Collective of Port Workers and the Union Sindicale di Base, adding that the Port Authority has promised talks for establishing “permanent observatory on arms trafficking.”Italian union leaders have warned that handling such shipments constitutes complicity in the war crimes carried out by Israel in the Gaza Strip, vowing a ban on unloading weapons for warzones “by any means.”

Genoa port workers had previously intercepted a similar arms shipment on the same ship in 2019The incident is the latest of several similar shipment interceptions, signaling growing international opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

On 4 June, French dockworkers refused to load arms components destined for Israel at France’s Fos-Marseille. The ship was forced to leave the port without the cargo.

The latest interception comes as zionist is planning a full occupation of Gaza City. The brutal Israeli siege on the strip continues to worsen a severe famine, which has seen dozens, including children, die from starvation in recent weeks. Publicly, Saudi Arabia demands Palestinian statehood in exchange for officially normalizing ties with zionist colony, despite under-the-table dealings between Riyadh and Tel Aviv. In 2023, former Saudi intelligence colonel Rabih al-Anzi admitted back in 2023 that Saudi Arabia was helping arm Israel for its war against Hamas due to a shortage of western ammunition resulting from the Ukraine war.

In June this year, Anzi also said that Riyadh supported zionist war on Iran by opening its airspace to zionist jets and helping to intercept Iranian drones.

Other Arab states, including the UAE, which normalized ties with zionist in 2020, have contributed to the zionist military industry and the zionist economy throughout the genocidal war on Gaza.

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It is noteworthy that after the US and Germany, Italy is the third largest arms supplier to the zionist colony.