A commercial court in Paris has ruled against a decision by the French government to ban Israeli companies that supply the bombardment in Gaza and Lebanon from exhibiting their hardware at the Euronaval defence fair, Al Jazeera reports.

The court said organisers of the fair cannot keep Israeli companies from exhibiting at the event based on their nationality and ordered the suspension of “the execution of the measures adopted against” the firms, according to the AFP news agency and the Times of Israel newspaper.

Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz hailed the ruling as a “significant victory” against the French government’s “unjust and undemocratic decision”.

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