Spain has awarded 46 contracts to the Israeli military industry for a global value of 1,044,558,955 euros, when the terrorist attack occurred that triggered the current offensive on Gaza, according to a study of the Delàs Center for Research for Peace Based on the data published by the State Contracting Platform.
Ten of these contracts, worth about 817 million euros, have not yet been formalized, so the Studies Center asks to be canceled. Among them are the Silam multiple raunchers, for 576 million, or the Spike antiacere missile system, for 237.5 million. The Ministry of Defense recognizes that both contracts, awarded to Spanish companies, use technology from Israeli companies Rafael and Elbit, which today [no es] substitutable ”by that of another supplier.
In the list, two 9 mm caliber bullet supply contracts are included to the Civil Guard, worth 3.6 and 1.8 million euros, to the IMI Systems LTD company, which President Pedro Sánchez has ordered to cancel, after the protests of his coalition partner. There are also two other contracts not yet formalized for the same company of programmers M339 Setter for 120 millimeter spounds per amount of 1.8 million and 10,000 euros. According to the Ministry of Defense, this tender was paralyzed and no contract has been signed.
Yes, instead, in April of last year, the purchase of Pod of laser designation systems for combat aircraft to the Israeli firm Rafael for 207 million was awarded. The company that appears with more contracts is Guardian Homeland Security, with 19, although together they suppose just over three million, while the eight awards to the different divisions of the Elbit Group, some without formalizing, add 1,375 million.
Many of the contracts aim to maintain equipment previously acquired, such as the maintenance and acquisition of spare parts for Radioenlace GRC 408 systems, awarded to Elbit Systems C41 and Cyber Ltd for 741.5 million in May last year; While others suppose new acquisitions, such as Silam Razacohetes. The Delás center warns that the latter can increase the dependence of the Israeli military industry by generating future maintenance and modernization contracts.
Although most of the awards correspond to the Ministry of Defense, other administrations appear in the relationship. In addition to the Ministry of Interior, with contracts from the Civil Guard and the National Police, other State agencies are included, such as the ports of Tarragona and Huelva, dependent on the Ministry of Transportation, and even local entities, such as the municipal police of the municipalities of Aviles (Asturias) and Ourense.
For the Center Delàs all these awards demonstrate that the Government has maintained the hiring of military products to Israeli companies despite declaring the opposite, so it asks to “immediately cancel all formalized or execution contracts that contribute to maintain, legitimize or promote the genocide and war crimes of Israel’s military actions on the Palestinian civilian population of Gaza and Cisjordan […] If the government had political will, it could impose that embargo through a decree law at the next meeting of the Council of Ministers, ”he concludes.
to supply 5 million bullets to the Civil Guard. “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,” said a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry. “The Spanish government is sacrificing security considerations for political purposes and continues to be located on the wrong side of the history against the Jewish state that is defending terrorist attacks on seven fronts,” he added.
