{"id":48714,"date":"2025-10-01T09:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T09:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/48714\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T09:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T09:12:07","slug":"germany-approves-2-46-million-euros-in-arms-exports-to-israel-after-partial-gaza-embargo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/48714\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany Approves 2.46 Million Euros in Arms Exports to Israel After Partial Gaza Embargo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"rXoKk hYDRe hnysah jUVRgC gZAOgR kTHets jRwofS qSgdC brXQGp kHlstv eeFyyU krpnci cLDOsk cgtMrY TSpXR\">Germany has approved arms exports to Israel worth at least 2.46 million euros ($2.9 million) since implementing a partial export halt, according to a response from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs to a parliamentary inquiry by Die Linke (The Left) party.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"rXoKk hYDRe hnysah jUVRgC gZAOgR kTHets jRwofS qSgdC brXQGp kHlstv eeFyyU krpnci cLDOsk cgtMrY TSpXR\">The shipments involve &#8220;other military goods&#8221; and do not include weapons of war, according to the ministry.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"rXoKk hYDRe hnysah jUVRgC gZAOgR kTHets jRwofS qSgdC brXQGp kHlstv eeFyyU krpnci cLDOsk cgtMrY TSpXR\">Chancellor Friedrich Merz ordered on August 8 that exports of military equipment that could be used in the Gaza conflict be temporarily suspended. The move was in response to Israel&#8217;s increasingly aggressive military actions and marked a shift in Germany&#8217;s policy towards the country.<\/p>\n<p>Haaretz WeeklySpecial episode: What you need to know about Trump&#8217;s new Israel-Gaza peace plan | with Amir Tibon<\/p>\n<p>play<\/p>\n<p>Haaretz Weekly<\/p>\n<p>Special episode: What you need to know about Trump&#8217;s new Israel-Gaza peace plan | with Amir Tibon<\/p>\n<p>Volume: 0.5<\/p>\n<p>1X<\/p>\n<p>total&#8211; : &#8211;time0:00<\/p>\n<p>fast forward15<\/p>\n<p>play<\/p>\n<p>rewind15<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"rXoKk hYDRe hnysah jUVRgC gZAOgR kTHets jRwofS qSgdC brXQGp kHlstv eeFyyU krpnci cLDOsk cgtMrY TSpXR\">Prior to that, Berlin had gradually intensified criticism of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s government but had refrained from sanctions.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"rXoKk hYDRe hnysah jUVRgC gZAOgR kTHets jRwofS qSgdC brXQGp kHlstv eeFyyU krpnci cLDOsk cgtMrY TSpXR\">For the first five weeks after the suspension, <a class=\"eGCNgh dLUwcr fqmBkg bDhwrW ldclWd iRietU gAhwfJ iaemGh klOnSG jXnPOM cxrii bsfUtT hVpJBA jAPbjB\" target=\"_router\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/2025-08-08\/ty-article\/germany-bars-military-exports-to-israel-for-use-in-gaza-chancellor-says\/00000198-894b-d662-adfa-cd4b42610000\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">no export approvals<\/a> were granted. The current approvals, covering the period up to September 22, indicate that the \u20ac2.46 million in shipments occurred between September 13 and 22. By comparison, from January 1 to August 8, 2025, export licences to Israel totalled around \u20ac250 million.<\/p>\n<p>Related Articles<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"rXoKk hYDRe hnysah jUVRgC gZAOgR kTHets jRwofS qSgdC brXQGp kHlstv eeFyyU krpnci cLDOsk cgtMrY TSpXR\">The exact nature of the shipments remains unclear. The ministry&#8217;s response lists eight categories, including rockets, torpedoes, warships and naval equipment. But as the exports are not classified as weapons of war and the total value is relatively small, the shipments likely involve accessories or equipment.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"rXoKk hYDRe hnysah jUVRgC gZAOgR kTHets jRwofS qSgdC brXQGp kHlstv eeFyyU krpnci cLDOsk cgtMrY TSpXR\">The partial halt had sparked criticism in Israel. Netanyahu accused Germany of rewarding the Palestinian militant organization Hamas for terrorism, expressing his disappointment directly to Merz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany has approved arms exports to Israel worth at least 2.46 million euros ($2.9 million) since implementing a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[63,170,42,1031,1513,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-48714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-europe","tag-germany","tag-headlines","tag-idf","tag-israel-gaza-war","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}