An Israeli Member of Parliament is asking his country’s high court to stop the jewish state from exporting wiretapping equipment to South Sudan.

According to Haaretz’s website, Tamar Zandberg filed a case after the UN reported in January that Israel was providing South Sudan with equipment to spy on its rivals.

The MP filed a petition with the High Court of Justice on Monday, seeking to force the Defense Ministry to cancel export licenses for the equipment to Juba.

The equipment is allegedly being used to monitor government’s opponents.

The petition contains a request for a show cause order that would require the defense and foreign ministries to explain why the export license should not be cancelled, at least until the civil war in South Sudan ends.

A UN report found that spying equipment had been sent to South Sudan after the civil war broke out in the country and that Israeli weapons had been found in the country prior to the outbreak of the war.

The UN report said that the ability of the South Sudanese authorities to arrest their opponents had been substantially improved as a result of the purchase of what it called Israeli “communications interception equipment.”

Israel made a commitment to the United Nations that it would not supply lethal weapons to the South Sudan government, but reportedly at the same time decided to allow the export of equipment that was considered defensive in nature.

The lawmaker argues that legislation on military exports are designed specifically to avoid a situation in which Israel is supplying weapons used to commit war crimes and against innocent civilians.