On Thursday, Slovenia imposed a ban on exports, imports and the transit of weapons to Israel, two weeks after it announced two Israeli ministers unwanted.
A statement issued by the office of Prime Minister Robert Gulop, the decision that the latter initiated during a government session held on Thursday, while the official news agency quoted it as saying that Slovenia is “the first European country to take such a step.”
Under the new decision, all military weapons and equipment sent from Slovenia to Israel, or who are imported, or transferred through the Slovenian territory, are prohibited.
This step comes in light of the increasing criticism of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and as a result of the inability of the European Union to take concrete measures on Israel.
The statement added that the government “has not issued any permits to export weapons and military equipment to Israel since October 2023 due to the conflict.”
In early July, Slovenia banned, in a move, the first of its kind in the European Union, the entry of two Israeli ministers from the extreme right to the country.
On that day, she announced that the Israeli Minister of Internal Security Intar bin Ghafir and the Israeli Finance Minister of Salawal Smotrich “is not desirable” because of what she described “with their statements calling for the implementation of an extermination that encourages extreme violence and serious violations of the human rights of the Palestinians.”
In June 2024, the Slovenia Parliament approved legislation recognizing the State of Palestine, after similar steps taken by Ireland, Norway and Spain, partly driven by the condemnation of Israel’s bombing of Gaza.
Earlier on Thursday, the Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Israeli Ambassador to protest the humanitarian catastrophe caused by preventing urgent humanitarian aid to the arrival of Gaza.
The Slovenian Foreign Ministry announced, in a publication via its account on the “X” platform, that it summoned the newly appointed ambassador in Liopulliana, Ruth Cohen Dar, to the ministry, calling on Israel to immediately stop the killing and starvation of civilians.
The international and international calls for ending the war and the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip escalated after the large rise in the numbers of the Palestinian martyrs who are killed in “death traps” at the distribution points of aid, the so -called “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation”, which is behind the United States and Israel.
The Israeli genocide, with American support, left more than 207,000 Palestinians among the dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands of displaced people and the famine that have been tired of many, including dozens of children.
