Does FedEx support Israel?

FedEx Express acquired the international express business of Israel's Flying Cargo Group (FC Express Ltd.), announced 15 January 2019 and completed later that year after the Israeli Competition Authority cleared the merger on 20 February 2019. The deal converted nearly three decades of agent-based service — Flying Cargo had represented FedEx in Israel since 1990 — into a directly owned and operated FedEx business in Israel. Purchase price was not disclosed.

FedEx Express Israel opened a new operations centre in the industrial zone of Kiryat Ata, in northern Israel, built with an investment of NIS 36 million (about $11.2 million at the Bank of Israel rate of 3.21 shekels to the dollar on 21 February 2022). Globes reported it on 21 February 2022, ICE on 22 February and mynet Krayot on 23 February. The roughly 3,000-square-metre site replaced the centre FedEx had operated in the area until then, employs dozens of staff and handles tens of thousands of parcels a week — about 30% of all FedEx Express activity in Israel — bringing the company's northern operations, customer service and account-management teams together on one site. ICE and mynet both described it as FedEx's latest investment in Israel, after the opening of another operational facility at its Ben Gurion Airport complex in 2021; Globes put it the other way round, saying the new centre adds to FedEx's earlier investments in Israel, that Ben Gurion facility among them. Miriam Tzur, chief executive of FedEx Express Israel, said the launch, together with the latest technology, gave the company “an even stronger presence in northern Israel, which is developing rapidly as a major technological and industrial hub.” This is FedEx spending its own money on its own commercial network — an investment in its Israeli business, not a donation, aid or a statement of support.

FedEx suspended its international air-cargo service to and from Israel on 9 October 2023 after the Hamas attack, then announced on 10 October that international inbound and outbound Israel operations would resume, with a company service alert confirming full reinstatement by 12 October. FreightWaves reported on 17 October 2023 that FedEx and UPS had, up to that point, kept their own freighter aircraft out of Israel — relying instead on commercial passenger flights and third-party carriers — while independent operator Global Crossing Airlines was among the few carriers still flying its own aircraft into Tel Aviv; FreightWaves later updated that same report to say FedEx had quietly begun flying its own Boeing 757-200 on Athens–Tel Aviv rotations, tracked by Flightradar24 making at least two trips since 17 October.

FedEx partially suspended its import and export services to and from Israel on 13 June 2025, the day Israel began its strikes on Iran, and announced on Friday 27 June 2025 that after Israeli airspace reopened following the ceasefire that took effect on 24 June, “all import and export express services to and from Israel have fully resumed.” The 26 June 2025 resumption date comes from one outlet. ICE carried a statement by Miriam Tzur, chief executive of FedEx Israel, saying that after “a challenging two-week period during which Israel's airspace was closed” all express import and export services to and from Israel had been restored in full as of 26 June. Of the other Hebrew outlets reporting the return on 27 June 2025, TheMarker's subhead carries a different fragment of the same statement — “we set keeping our team members safe as our highest priority” — while its lede says only that FedEx announced “today (Friday)” that it had returned to full operation, with no date and no Tzur quote; Israel Hayom carries neither, relaying instead a separate company line that FedEx had scaled its Israeli activity back over the previous two weeks to protect its staff's safety. The company added that it remained committed to “delivering reliable, resilient service that keeps Israeli businesses connected and operating smoothly” — a statement about the continuity of its own commercial service, not a statement of political support. What is documented here is FedEx restoring its own paid network; no donation, aid or public statement of support is involved.

On Tuesday 21 April 2026 the French Jewish Union for Peace (UJFP), an anti-Zionist campaign group, filed a criminal complaint with France's national anti-terrorism prosecutor's office (PNAT) against FedEx's French subsidiary, FedEx Express FR — not against FedEx Corporation — over what it called acts amounting to “complicity in war crimes, complicity in crimes against humanity and complicity in genocide” in the transport, routing and delivery of essential combat-aircraft components from the United States to Israel via France. The complaint, which AFP says it has seen, rests on a report by pro-Palestinian campaign groups (AFP names Urgence Palestine; Middle East Eye also names People's Embargo for Palestine) cataloguing 117 shipments that transited Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport between early April and late October 2025, of which 22 went on directly to Israel, three of them aboard FedEx aircraft registered in France. The complainants say the parts served to maintain and repair F-35 jets flown by the Israeli air force over Gaza and that FedEx “must have known” the contents; these are their allegations, untested in court. FedEx France denies them, telling AFP: “We do not make any international deliveries of weapons or ammunition.” AFP also reported that Belgian federal prosecutors confirmed they had opened a probe into one of the deliveries, which transited Liège airport on 20 June 2025.

Amnesty International announced on 3 June 2026 that it had joined a criminal complaint lodged with the public prosecutor of Liège, in Belgium's Wallonia region, against FedEx Belgium — the company's Belgian subsidiary — by the campaign groups Vredesactie, the Ligue des droits humains and the Coordination nationale d'action pour la paix et la démocratie. The complaint alleges the unlawful transit of arms, including parts for F-35 fighter jets, without the Walloon transit licence Belgian law requires, which Amnesty says is a criminal offence. Amnesty states that, according to information on FedEx's own website, a shipment subject to US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) was carried in October 2024 from Hill Air Force Base in Utah to the Nevatim military air base in Israel; that in June 2025 FedEx said “certain FedEx flight routes have been reconfigured at short notice for operational reasons” because Israeli airspace was closed during the 12-day Israel-Iran war, so that “certain goods subject to International Traffic in Arms Regulations may have passed through Liège unintentionally”; and that the cargo was unloaded at Liège airport, taken by road to Cologne airport in Germany and then on to Israel. A separate judicial investigation is open at Belgium's federal prosecutor's office. FedEx Belgium told Amnesty: “FedEx is committed to complying with applicable laws and regulations. We do not ship weapons or ammunition internationally and have put in place strict screening procedures to prevent such shipments.” The allegations have not been tested in court.