🇵🇸🇫🇷🇪🇺 France, Germany, and Greece led EU #arms sales to Israel in 2024, even as pressure now builds for new sanctions due to ongoing Israeli war crimes. 

Romania, the Czech Republic, and Finland also licensed millions of euros of arms exports to Israel in 2024, despite its mass killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the time, which led the International Criminal Court to issue a war-crimes indictment against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu the same year. 

#France granted some €362m of arms-export licences to Israel in 2024, according to the latest EU data published on Wednesday (29 April), while #Germany granted €169m, #Greece €114m, #Romania €103m, the #Czechs €35m, and #Finland €17m. 

#Hungary (€6m), #Latvia (€4m), and #Croatia (€2m) granted minor amounts of permits, while #Austria, #Bulgaria, #Cyprus, #Estonia, #Lithuania, #Luxembourg, the #Netherlands, and #Poland each also issued €1m or fewer. 

https://euobserver.com/214004/france-topped-eu-arms-sales-to-israel-while-backing-mini-sanctions/