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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">These are the Two Countries that Provide Israel with 99 Percent of Its Weapons</h1>March 26, 2024</div>
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The overwhelming majority of
Israel’s weapons imports originate from two countries. (Photo: Israeli
Air Forces, via Wikimedia Commons)
<p><strong>By <a href="https://www.palestinechronicle.com/writers/palestine-chronicle-staff" title="Display all articles for Palestine Chronicle Staff">Palestine Chronicle Staff</a></strong> </p>
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<h3><span>With increasing international pressure to stop supplying
weapons to Tel Aviv amid its genocidal war in Gaza, recent data reveals
that the overwhelming majority of Israel’s weapons imports originate
from two countries.</span></h3>
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<p><span>According to the annual </span><a href="https://www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/2024-03/fs_2403_at_2023.pdf"><span>report</span></a><span>
published in March by the Stockholm International Peace Research
Institute (SIPRI), 69 percent of Israel’s arms acquisitions in 2023 are
sourced from US firms, with 30 percent coming from Germany, followed by
Italy, with 0.9 percent.</span></p>
<p><span>“At the end of 2023, the USA rapidly delivered thousands of
guided bombs and missiles to Israel, but the total volume of Israeli
arms imports from the USA in 2023 was almost the same as in 2022,” the
report read.</span></p>
<p><span>“By the end of 2023, pending deliveries of major arms to Israel
included 61 combat aircraft from the USA and 4 submarines from
Germany,” it added.</span></p>
<p><span>The sale of fighter jets by the US to Israel in recent decades
has played “a major role in Israel’s military actions against Hamas and
Hezbollah,” according to SIPRI.</span></p>
<h4><b>Aircraft Components</b></h4>
<p><span>Additionally, </span><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/amid-arms-embargo-calls-data-shows-99-of-israeli-weapon-imports-are-from-us-germany/"><span>according</span></a><span> to The Times of Israel, </span><span>“all
of the Israeli Air Force’s current manned aircraft are American-made,
aside from one helicopter built by France’s Airbus Helicopters.”</span></p>
<p><span>The Israeli newspaper also reported that “Israel relies heavily
on other nations for many of the components in its warplanes,
helicopters, warships and submarines,” including the United Kingdom,
Canada and the Netherlands.</span></p>
<p><span>According to a report </span><a href="https://caat.org.uk/data/countries/israel/mapped-all-the-uk-companies-manufacturing-components-for-israels-f35-combat-aircraft/"><span>published</span></a><span>
last February by the Campaign against Arms Trade, “15% of every F35
that Israel is using to bombard Gaza is made by British industry.”</span></p>
<p><span>Additionally, the British defense minister </span><a href="https://www.declassifieduk.org/uk-admits-nine-israeli-military-planes-have-visited-britain-since-gaza-bombing-began/"><span>admitted</span></a><span> in February that nine Israeli military aircraft had landed and taken off in Britain since October 7.</span></p>
<p><b>Arms Embargo</b></p>
<p><span>More than 200 lawmakers from 12 countries have called for an
arms embargo on Israel, arguing in a letter that they will not be
complicit in “Israel’s grave violation of international law” in its
assault on Gaza.</span></p>
<p><span>In their letter, the politicians argue that, after the ruling
by the International Court of Justice, ordering Israel to ensure its
forces do not commit acts of genocide in Gaza, “an arms embargo has
moved beyond a moral necessity to become a legal requirement”.</span></p>
<p><span>An appeals court ordered the Dutch government on February 12 to
halt the export of F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel, citing a clear
risk of violations of international law.</span></p>
<p><span>Other countries, including Canada, announced the halt of arms
exports to Israel in light of the ongoing aggression on the besieged
enclave.</span></p>
<p><b>Gaza Genocide</b></p>
<p><span>Currently on trial before the International Court of Justice
for genocide against Palestinians, Israel has been waging a devastating
war on Gaza since October 7. </span></p>
<p><span>According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 32,414 Palestinians
have been killed, and 74,787 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in
Gaza starting on October 7.</span></p>
<p><span>Moreover, at least 7,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip. </span></p>
<p><span>Palestinian and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.</span><span> </span></p>
<p><span>The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful
displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip,
with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded
southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become
Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.</span></p>
<p><span>Israel says that 1,200 soldiers and civilians were killed
during the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7. Israeli media published
reports suggesting that many Israelis were killed on that day by
‘friendly fire.’ </span></p>
<p><i><span>(PC, MEMO)</span></i></p>
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