Germany Approves Over $100mn Worth of Arms for Israel

Date: 25 October 2024 - 23:20

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BERLIN (Dispatches) –
German Foreign Ministry data that was revealed on Thursday indicated that Berlin has approved military exports to the Zionist regime worth more than $100 million over the past three months.
According to the ministry, Germany has approved arms exports worth €94,052,394 ($101.61 million) to the occupying regime since August, according to the government’s response to a parliamentary inquiry by Left Party MP Sevim Dagdelen. The new approvals follow a significant drop in arms exports to Israel in the first half of the year.
This comes as the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights announced on Thursday that it has filed an appeal with the Frankfurt Administrative Court on behalf of a Gaza resident, seeking to halt further arms exports.
The appeal claims that German weapons contribute to civilian harm in Gaza. The plaintiff in the case, a Palestinian resident of Gaza whose wife and daughter were killed in Israeli airstrikes, argues that continued arms shipments endanger his life and that of others, calling on Germany to stop sending weapons.
The human rights center said the case focuses on Germany’s approval of military exports that could be used in the conflict, including Merkava tank components from the German defense company Rheinmetall AG.
Neither Rheinmetall AG nor the German Ministry of Economic Affairs commented on the matter.