Value of Israel’s defence exports increased 13 percent in 2024 compared with the previous year to a record of almost $15bn.Israeli arms companies made record-high revenues last year, as weapons manufacturers market some of their products as “battle-tested” after their deployment in Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinian people in Gaza.Israel’s defence exports increased 13 percent in 2024 compared with the previous year to a record of almost $15bn, dominated by missiles, rockets and air-defence systems, the Israeli government said in a statement in June.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listMore than half the deliveries in 2024 went to European militaries, while other shipments went to countries in the Asia Pacific region, led by India.Israel is one of the top 10 arms-exporting countries in the world.The increase in revenues last year came as Israel faced allegations of genocide in a case brought by South Africa at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), while the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes.“Israel sells the idea of getting away with it,” Antony Loewenstein, author of The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World, told Al Jazeera.“There is a very great appeal of that to many other nations.”Shir Hever, an Israeli arms trade specialist, said that the countries that import Israeli weapons are aware that their action is “illegal”.Hever told Al Jazeera: “[Buyers] know that a genocide is taking place, and third countries are under …
