Marlaska terminates controversial contracts with an Israeli company five months later.

MadridPedro Sánchez ordered on April 24 terminate contracts with the Israeli company IMI Systems LTD to acquire 15 million rounds of ammunition for the Civil Guard, following a heated controversy over the Spanish government's contradictions, which boasted of not trading with Benjamin Netanyahu's regime in the midst of the offensive in Gaza. It wasn't until Monday that the Secretary of State for Security, Aina Calvo, signed the resolution on the files, citing the arms embargo decree approved by the Council of Ministers last week, according to Europa Press. Once the Interministerial Board for the Regulation of International Trade in Defense and Dual-Use Material (JIMDDU) denied the import, the Ministry of the Interior was able to permanently tear up the paperwork.

"The reason for terminating the contracts with IMI Systems LTD is based on the supervening legal impossibility arising from the prohibition on importing defense material from Israel, materialized by the denial of the import license by the competent authority. [The Royal Decree-Law of September 23, 202] states the resolution signed by the number 2 of the Interior Ministry. According to Europa Press, the proposal is to liquidate the contract "with the figure of 0 euros" and only the return of 275,500 euros is proposed, "equivalent to 5 percent of the base budget of the tender for each lot." Its total value was approximately 6.8 million euros. The amount to be returned corresponds to a deposit advanced by the Israeli company as a guarantee of compliance, but it would not be compensation.

It was therefore necessary to approve this arms embargo decree to end these controversial contracts. In fact, when the Ministry of the Interior decided to go ahead despite the commitment to reverse it, it was because the State's legal counsel had advised it to do so, given that they could find no way to abandon the product without losing money. Sánchez ordered the rescission, and the Spanish government assured them that they would study a way to avoid losses, but ultimately, the legal change that anti-militarist and pro-Palestinian organizations had long been demanding was necessary: an arms embargo on Israel.

The State maintains contracts with the controversial Israeli arms broker that sparked the clash between the PSOE and Sumar.