LONDON

A London-based law firms urged the Metropolitan Police to investigate the potential complicity of Elbit Systems UK directors in atrocities in the Gaza Strip.

The Public Interest Law Centre (PILC), with the support of Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT), submitted a detailed complaint Thursday to the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command.

The complaint said they asked the division to open a criminal investigation into four current and former British directors of Elbit Systems UK for "possible complicity in war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in Gaza."

The complaint is brought on behalf of a Palestinian national living in the UK whose close family members remain in Gaza.

It asked the War Crimes Unit to investigate whether decisions taken by Elbit Systems UK and its UK-based subsidiaries, including the export of drone engines, targeting equipment and other military systems to Israel, may amount to aiding, abetting or otherwise assisting grave breaches of international humanitarian law.

CAAT has long documented Elbit’s role in Israeli military operations and its UK-based subsidiaries.

"Our client has watched from the UK as her community in Gaza was destroyed. She has witnessed her loved ones and countless others subjected to mass killings, displacement, starvation, and devastation on an unimaginable scale," said PILC.

In the statement, CAAT said Israel’s genocide in Gaza "would not be possible without Elbit Systems."

"Elbit Systems is Israel’s largest arms producer, and Israel is the single largest market for Elbit’s products. It provides 85% of the combat drones used by the Israeli military," it noted.