Israel “firmly condemns” the cancellation of Spain of an armament contract with an Israeli company, said a spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry on Thursday, April 24.
“Israel firmly condemns the Spanish government’s decision to unilaterally break a contract signed with the IMI Systems Defense Company, as well as its announcement that the defense agreements with the Israeli companies will be abstained in the future,” said the spokesman.
A contract worth 6.8 million euros
Spain has announced on Thursday the unilateral cancellation with the Israeli company IMI Systems Ltd, of a contract worth 6.8 million euros, which referred to the supply of ammunition to the Civil Guard (equivalent to the Gendarmerie).
The government’s decision was markedly welcome by the Minister of Labor and number three of the Government, Yolanda Díaz, a decorative figure of adding, the left radical training of the Socialist Party of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.
Spain “cannot buy weapons from a government that massacre the Palestinian people,” said Yolanda Díaz, emphasizing that she had “negotiated” personally with the Minister of the Interior and Prime Minister to obtain his cancellation.
Originally concluded in October, the contract with the company IMI Systems Ltd “should never have existed”, because it constituted “a flagrant violation of international legality,” said Yolanda Díaz, who described the situation in the Gaza Strip, where Israeli military operations against the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas continue, as an authentic genocuro. “
A cancellation backed by the left of the government
The Government of Pedro Sánchez, who made an inexhaustible support to the Palestinian cause one of the main axes of its foreign policy, officially recognized the state of Palestine last May, which had further aggravated its relations already execrable with the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu.
The consequences of the cancellation of Madrid of this contract are not yet known. On Wednesday, Fuentes of the Ministry of Interior told AFP that Madrid had resigned to cancel this contract in the State Legal Services Council, which had concluded that Spain should pay the Israeli company, but without receiving the 15 million ordered balls.
“Not six million euros, not even six billion, can justify that Spain runs the risk of being an accomplice of a genocide,” the Secretary General of the Spanish Communist Party and the Deputy of Enrique Santiago said in a press conference.
Government sources, it was indicated on Thursday that “state legal services and competent ministries are already studying possible legal procedures and complaints.”
Source: BFM TV
