Archive image of an attack by Israel in Gaza/EFE.
The last report of the Center Delàs on the Armed relations between Spain and Israel It reveals a notable distortion: the Netanyahu government has registered weapons purchases to Spain for a value five times higher than the Spanish Executive, through Data Comex (the Portal of Foreign Trade Statistics of Assets of Spain and the EU).
Specifically, according to the website of Databases of the Israel government that collects information from all ministries, between October 7, 2023 (when the Hamas attacks) and March 2025, Israel reported imports from Spain worth 5.3 million euros (in 88 shipments), corresponding to Code 93: Weapons and ammunition.
In the detail of these operations, they explain in the study, they refer to the Incotermsthat is, “how transport costs are distributed and responsibilities between the parties of an international contract are assigned.”
Delàs experts point out that Israel’s use of different types of Incoterms “It suggests different transfer logics, while the Government of Spain has pointed out only two: material to be returned to Spain and products to be re -exported to third countries.”
This divergence in the classification of transfers, is demonstrated with the data referred to the first semester of 2024. As indicated in the report, “the whole of the material that Israel records as imported from Spain by Code 93 Sum, between January and June 2024, 1,215,399 euros, an amount very similar to 1,225,232 euros that Spain recognizes in that period by that period 5 Unique compatible between those exported with Code 93. So, if it is the same material, Israel and Spain would be coding it differently.
Israel’s weapons exports to Spain
As at the time, the researcher at Center Delàs Alejandro Pozo A To the sea, For Israel it is much more important to export than to import, because “the occupation is expensive.” To the Albur of this statement, it is possible that in Israel they are really happy, since, as they emphasize the report, “Spain had never imported as much as after October 7, 2023”.
Spain has imported from Israel products of the 93 code valued at more than 15 million euros, in addition to another 21.6 million euros of the 8710 code (armor armored cars and cars, even armed; parts). The sum reaches 36.7 million. In 2024 the second highest figure was given in the previous decade. The record was in 2023, and more than half was imported in the last quarter.
-And how does the Government of Spainafter reiterating that, since October 7, all the Israeli weapons acquisition contracts had been suspended, except those related to the arrangement of pieces?
In September 2024, according to the explanations extracted by the center of Datacomex, he justified them arguing that it was the result of the “return to Spain of material from the Ministry of defense, previously sent to Israel with a temporary character, in order to be subject to repairs”; in November and December 2024, “operations to meet the needs of national defense”; and in January and February 2025, imports to “strategic programs of the Ministry of Defensefor use by the Ministry of Defense of Spain ”.
To the above we must add contract awards from the Ministry of Defense to Armament Companies in Israel, and totaling 1,044 million euros since October 7.
Business cooperation with Israeli industry
The study also highlight the examples of awards to Israeli products developed by Spanish companies, through technology transfer agreements, which include the manufacture of SILAM launches (a product of Elbit Systems that they will develop E & M and Rheinmetall Expall), the Spike Missile (from Rafael, which will also manufacture the previous two, together with Technobit and FMG) or the Lasening V deigners V (also of Rafael, in whose supply Indra and Technobit participates).
“The collaborationIndustrial Defense ón between Spanishña and Israel It is extensive and transcends awards to Israeli companies of contracts from Spanish institutions. The 8 × 8 “Dragon” vehicle, for example, a “Spanish” product manufactured by the Empresas Escribano M & e, Indra, Santa Barbara Systems and Sapa Placencia, uses at least five products of three Israeli companies of defense: Elbit, Rafael and Plasan ”, they exemplify.
Transit and transford of defense material bound for Israel
In 2024, they underline in the report, there were at least three denial denials or threats to ships that carried military material bound for Israeland the Spanish government said that it would not authorize any other transit.
However, with or without authorization, the scales have continued to be produced frequently, in at least four ways: ships that use the broken base; Merchants of the US Maritime Security Program that make Transhipment in Algeciras; Commercial ships of the Israeli Zim company that connect the US. and ships from Asia that stop in Spanish ports on their alternative route for the risk of attack in the Red Sea.
In addition, “cases of use of Zaragoza airport for air traffic of military material bound for Israel have been reported,” they recall.
