SPIEGEL: German government gives permission to send more weapons to Israel

The Spiegel newspaper announced the approval of the German government for the supply of large quantities of weapons to the Zionist regime.

According to AP, the weekly newspaper Spiegel wrote on Tuesday that the German government has approved the export of significant quantities of weapons worth more than 30 million euros to the Israeli regime in recent weeks.

The German authorities had previously approved the shipment of 160 million euros worth of weapons to the Israeli regime, despite international concerns about the Zionist regime's human rights violations.

According to Spiegel, Germany is set to send special equipment for Israel's Merkava tanks to the occupied territories so that they can be made available to the regime this summer.

Christian Hoffmann, deputy spokesman for the German government, said that the decision to send German military equipment to the occupied territories had been in place for a long time, but that no decision had been made to impose a general embargo on arms exports to Israel.

Earlier, Reuters reported that human rights lawyers in Germany had asked a Berlin court to suspend the government's decision to send 3,000 anti-tank weapons to the Israeli regime.

The German government's decision to send large quantities of weapons to the Zionist regime comes at a time when Berlin had previously announced that it had banned arms exports to the Israeli regime due to war crimes in the Gaza Strip.