Israel « firmly condemns » the termination of the contract to sell bullets to Spain | Spain
Israel has responded hard to The decision of the Government of Spain to unilaterally terminate the controversial contract of purchase of 15 million bullets to an Israeli company for more than six million euros. The Benjamín Netanyahu executive has condemned on Thursday night that Spain has canceled the commercial agreement with the IMI Systems Israeli company for the acquisition ammunition and has also affected that with it what is doing the Cabinet of Pedro Sánchez is to leave aside the security “for political purposes”.
« Israel firmly condemns the Spanish government decision to unilaterally break a contract signed with the company IMI Systems and its announcement that you will refrain from future defense agreement with Israeli companies, » a spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry told EP.
In the opinion of the Israeli Executive, « the Spanish government is sacrificing security considerations for political purposes and continues to be on the wrong side of the history against the Jewish state that is defending terrorist attacks on seven fronts, » the spokesman lamented.
The dissemination of the Ammunition Purchase Contract for the Civil Guard worth 6,642,900 has shaken Spanish politics in recent days and has endangered the government coalition. Interior took advantage of Holy Week to publish on the public sector contracting platform the contract, after having promised that it would annul it, which sat badly in La Moncloa and unleashed the indignation of the government’s minority partner, add. One of its integral formations, IU, he even pointed to the possibility of leaving the government.
Although Interior has claimed economic issues to maintain the contract-it said that the cancellation forces to pay in any case the value of the material, without receiving it-in the end the criterion of the presidency of Government has been imposed, which, to avoid greater political wear and tear that has already caused the controversy, this Thursday has reversed and has ordered the ministry that Fernando Grande-Marlaska directs to annul a commercial agreement. Outside and within the government it was widely interpreted as an inconsistency with the policy of clear conviction that has been deploying Spain against the Israeli invasion of Gaza with a balance of victims, growing, which already exceeds 50,000 dead.
Spain recognized the state of Palestine in May last year – which led Israel to call consultations to its ambassador to Madrid, although after a few months he returned to the legation – and He has demanded on numerous the end of the war in the strip. In addition, in June Spain formally requested to intervene before the International Court of Justice of The Hague in the procedure initiated by South Africa against Israel for alleged crime of genocide.
The second vice president Yolanda Díaz, harshly criticized the contract yesterday and this Thursday has highlighted her termination. « The important thing today is that it is finally terminated and that the Government of Spain does not do business with a genocidal government as in this case is the one who is massacing the Palestinian people, » he emphasized.
