Spain Israeli anti-tank missiles procurement: Report
Madrid: Spain, who has criticized Israel’s aggressive criticism in Gaza, has canceled a contract to buy 168 firing posts and 1,680 anti-tank missiles from Israeli defense company Rafael, Spanish media spoke on Wednesday.The deal was priced at 287.5 million euros ($ 327 million), according to the top-selling daily Spanish newspaper E, which cited anonymous government sources.The device was to be manufactured in Spain under a license from Rafael.Sources in the Spanish Ministry of Defense told AFP that the government has “started a process to cancel the license of Israeli” with the goal of achieving more technical freedom and autonomy “was working” working to redirect its purchase programs “.The criticisms of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez criticized the aggressive in Gaza, which was affected by the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by recognizing a Palestinian kingdom last year.In the end of April, Spain canceled a contract to buy bullets from another Israeli company, the IMI system, was rapidly condemned by Israel after the pressure of a remote coalition partner Sumer of the socialist-led government.Sumer’s founder Labor Minister Yolanda Diaz said at the time that Spain said “a genocide cannot engage in business with the government … who is massacre of the Palestinian people”.The government of Sanchez said that it stopped arms transactions with Israel after the war started after Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.But according to the Center Delus, a think tank in Barcelona, expertly specialized in security and defense, has given 46 contracts to Israeli companies on the basis of data published on a public tender platform.
