US EditionSpain Cancels Major Arms Deal with Elbit in Second Canceled Israeli Contract This Week
Spain's government halted over €1 billion in Israeli arms contracts as part of an embargo responding to the Gaza conflict, including a €700 million deal with Elbit Systems.
- The Spanish government has canceled a nearly €700 million contract for rocket launchers from Elbit Systems, as confirmed by an official document seen by Agence France-Presse.
- This cancellation follows Spain's approval of a ban on military equipment sales to Israel, aimed at addressing the ongoing conflict in Gaza.
- Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has announced a full ban on military equipment sales to Israel, condemning its actions in Gaza as 'genocide.'
- Spain is undertaking a review of its military agreements with Israeli firms amid increasing public pressure to cease complicity in what Sánchez termed 'the genocide in Gaza.
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The Spanish government has officially announced the cancellation of an arms contract worth approximately 700 million euros, which was earmarked for the purchase of Israeli-designed rocket launchers. This is the latest escalation in a series of measures taken by Madrid to pressure Tel Aviv over its ongoing aggression against the Gaza Strip.
In the wake of the embargo on arms contracts with the Hebrew state "to put an end to the genocide in Gaza", the government of Pedro Sánchez cancelled a contract with the Israeli group Elbit Systems.
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