In a report shared with Al Jazeera, the Britain-based rights group on Thursday documented how India has \u201cforged a close and profitable partnership with the Israeli defense sector and has become a significant contributor to the supply chains that support Israel\u2019s military operations\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cAmnesty International investigators analyzed 2,596 shipments of weapons, ammunition, parts and components shipped from India to Israel since 7 October 2023,\u201d the report titled The Supply of Weapons and Ammunition to Israel said, referring to the beginning of the massive Israeli offensive on Gaza.<\/p>\n
According to the report, Indian companies have supplied at least 390,516 small arms parts for military-grade weapons, 564,970 parts of explosive ordnance \u2013 such as drone warheads and artillery shell casings \u2013 and 298 components of military vehicles to Israeli military suppliers.<\/p>\n
Amnesty said it used shipment trade data to reveal how weapons, ammunition, parts and components were shipped to Israeli companies that supply them to the country\u2019s army.<\/p>\n
The rights group said its researchers \u201csystematically excluded\u201d shipments that may have been destined for civilian use, adding that they identified India\u2019s exports of weapons and ammunition, including parts and accessories, categorized under the internationally recognized Harmonized System codes (HS Code) 93+ and 8710+.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, Al Jazeera also obtained 91 Indian customs export documents covering arms-related shipments to Israel in 2024 under the classification code 93069000, which refers to \u201cbombs, grenades\u201d, according to India\u2019s Ministry of Commerce and Industry\u2019s customs book.<\/p>\n
The documents showed Indian firms exporting weapons components to Israeli arms manufacturers, including Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, IMI Systems Limited and MCT Materials.<\/p>\n
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in 2024 issued provisional measures that ordered Israel to take action to prevent genocide in Gaza. Since then, many human rights groups and independent United Nations experts have called Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza a genocide.<\/p>\n
Agnes Callamard, Amnesty International\u2019s secretary-general, said the group\u2019s report \u201creveals India\u2019s continuing support to the Israeli military and defense sector despite the genocide in Gaza, which has been broadcast worldwide on an almost daily basis for years\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIndia manufactures and supplies arms transferred to Israel through its ownership and control over key supplier companies,\u201d Callamard said.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot only has India failed to regulate arms exports to Israel by private companies in line with international law and standards, it has also deepened its defense partnership with Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n
Historically, India and Israel have deep ties in the areas of defense and security matters.<\/p>\n
India has been Israel\u2019s largest defense purchaser for years, including 29 percent of the total sales between 2020 and 2025, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).<\/p>\n
Israel ranked third during the same period in India\u2019s list of countries it sells arms to, with 15 percent of the imports coming from there \u2013 after Russia with 40 percent and France with 29 percent, SIPRI data shows.<\/p>\n
India and Israel signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on defense cooperation aimed at enhancing military, industrial and technological ties on November 4, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a report shared with Al Jazeera, the Britain-based rights group on Thursday documented how India has \u201cforged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-568623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568623","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=568623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}