MADRID: Spain´s interior ministry on Wednesday said a politically embarrassing multi-million-dollar arms purchase from an Israeli company would go ahead after state legal services advised against its attempt to scrap the contract.
Spain´s Socialist-led minority government halted weapons transactions with Israel after the outbreak of the war in Gaza, which was triggered by Hamas´s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, and which has devastated the Palestinian territory.
In October last year, the interior ministry said it had launched the process to terminate a deal with an Israeli firm that would have supplied bullets for the Civil Guard.
Ministry sources told AFP on Wednesday that the move had been abandoned following a recommendation by the state legal services “that advised against the cancellation due to the advanced stage of the processing of the contract”.
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