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February 8th, 2016 
Awake Goy Days of Palestine, Paris –Under BDS pressure, French government has decided to cancel a deal to purchase Israeli unmanned aerial vehicles worth hundreds of millions of Euros.
The Israeli Watchkeeper drone was created as part of a joint venture between the Israeli biggest arms developer Elbit System and the UK subsidiary of France’s Thales Group.
A contract for 14 units, comprising ten operational aircrafts and four for training, is worth some €300 million (US $324 million), with ten years of maintenance was cancelled, according to Defense News.
Defense News reported that “Watchkeeper was widely expected to be selected,” but instead the French defence ministry chose the Patroller drone made by French company Sagem.
“As part of the program for the tactical drone system which aims to deliver the Army a new tactical drone system, the Patroller from Sagem will win the competition over the Patroller from Thales,” weekly magazine Air and Cosmos French magazine has reported.
BDS activists in France were happy with this news as France’s decision is apparently a response to their petition, which gathered 8,000 signatures against the deal.
The group demanded France refrain from purchasing the Watchkeeper drones as they were used by the “Israeli army to kill civilians in Gaza.”
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Source Article from http://www.daysofpalestine.com/news/france-cancels-purchase-israeli-drones/
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