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‘No business with a genocidal govt’: Spain halts €287m missile purchase from Israeli firm Rafael
‘No business with a genocidal govt’: Spain halts €287m missile purchase from Israeli firm Rafael MADRID, June 4 — Spain, which has strongly criticised Israel’s offensive in Gaza, has cancelled a contract to buy 168 firing posts and 1,680 anti-tank missiles from Israeli defence company Rafael, Spanish media reported Wednesday. The deal was worth 287.5 million euros (US$327 million), according to top-selling daily Spanish newspaper El País, which …
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Spain freezes billion-shekel arms deal with Israeli defense firm Rafael, El Pais reports
The decision comes amid mounting pressure over Spain's arms trade with Israel since the Gaza war began, after the government already canceled a smaller deal with another Israeli weapons manufacturer
Spain has ordered the suspension of a contract with an Israeli company with which it had previously agreed to produce the Spike LR2 anti-tank missile system for use by the Land Forces Command.
The Spanish Ministry of Defense has ordered the suspension of a contract with an Israeli company that it had previously agreed to produce the Spike LR2 anti-tank missile system for use by the Land Forces Command.
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