Germany has stopped approving war weapons exports to Israel — report

Legal challenges across Europe have also led other allies of Israel to pause or suspend arms exports

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. File Picture: Justin Tallis/PA Wire

Germany has put a hold on new exports of weapons of war to Israel while it deals with legal challenges, according to a Reuters analysis of data and a source close to the Economy Ministry.

A source close to the ministry cited a senior government official as saying it had stopped work on approving export licences for arms to Israel due to legal and political pressure from legal cases arguing that such exports from Germany breached humanitarian law.