World News

1967 readers

666 users here now

Rules:
Be a decent person.
No racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, zionism/nazism, and so on.

Other Great Communities:

Rules

Be excellent to each other

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

Deceptichum@quokk.au

Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com

117

Spain’s parliament formally approves Israel arms embargo (www.aljazeera.com)

submitted 5 months ago by PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social to c/world@quokk.au

8 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I checked myself in the SIPRI report for the last five years

Between 2014–18 and 2019–23, arms imports by Israel rose marginally (+5.1 per cent). The USA accounted for 69 per cent and Germany for 30 per cent of Israeli arms imports. Imported weapons, in particular combat aircraft received from the USA over several decades, have played a major role in Israel’s military actions against Hamas and Hezbollah.

99% is from the USA and Germany, plus 0.9% from Italy makes 99.9%.