Everything You Need to Know: Germany’s Spike Missile Deal Is Funding the Destruction of Gaza

Germany is spending €2 billion on Israeli-made weapons. Meanwhile, Gaza is burning.

This week, Germany signed a massive new deal to purchase Spike anti-tank missiles through EuroSpike, a European joint venture with deep ties to Israel's Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. While politicians talk about ceasefires and humanitarian aid, they are quietly bankrolling the weapons being used to level Palestinian homes.

This is not defense. This is complicity.

💣 What Is the Spike Deal?

Germany will buy Israeli-designed Spike LR2 missiles via EuroSpike, a company based in Germany. EuroSpike is owned in part by Rafael, one of Israel's biggest arms firms. The missile system can destroy tanks and buildings from up to 10 kilometers away. It has been used by Israel in repeated attacks on Gaza.

While Berlin claims to have halted exports of weapons to Israel over its attacks on civilians, this deal is structured to avoid those restrictions. Germany is not sending weapons to Israel. It is buying them — and in doing so, injecting billions of euros into Israel’s arms industry.

The hypocrisy could not be clearer.

📉 Germany Claims an Embargo, But Keeps Buying Israeli Weapons

In August 2025, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Germany would stop exporting weapons that could be used in Gaza. But his government continues to sign massive arms import deals with Israel.

This includes:

• A €350 million deal for Israeli targeting systems
• A $260 million agreement for Israeli laser defenses
• A $60 million purchase of Israeli rocket launchers
• A €3.6 billion order for Israel’s Arrow-3 missile system

And now this: a €2 billion Spike missile deal. Germany is buying more Israeli weapons in 2025 than in the last four years combined.

This is not an embargo. This is business as usual with an apartheid state.

💥 Why This Matters for Palestine

Spike missiles are not just for European defense. They are battle-tested — in Gaza.

Every euro sent to Rafael helps Israel continue its war on Palestinians. These profits fund research, production, and expansion of Israel's war machine. They reward a regime that has killed over 66,000 people in Gaza since October 2023. They legitimize an occupation that bulldozes homes, bombs refugee camps, and targets civilians.

When European countries buy Israeli weapons, they are buying tools of apartheid. And they are sending a message: Palestinian lives do not matter.

🛑 Spain Showed the Alternative

Not every country is following Germany’s path. Spain has taken real action.

• It canceled over €1 billion in Israeli arms deals in 2025
• It banned all arms exports and imports with Israel
• It called Israel’s actions in Gaza what they are: genocide

Spain has drawn a line. It chose justice over profit. Germany, by contrast, is choosing profit over human rights.

🧭 What You Can Do

1. Boycott Germany’s defense deals with Israel. Demand accountability from elected leaders and defense contractors.
2. Download the Boycat App. Track corporations complicit in apartheid and find ethical alternatives across industries.
3. Use BuycatVPN. Safeguard your data from companies profiting off surveillance, war, and occupation.
4. Support Palestine. Share, organize, and keep the pressure on.

✊ The Bottom Line

Germany’s €2 billion deal for Israeli Spike missiles is not just a military contract. It is a political decision. It funds apartheid. It rewards war crimes. And it makes every European citizen complicit.

We have a choice. We can build a world based on human rights — or we can keep funding the bombs that flatten Gaza.