With this move, the Federal Constitutional Court upheld a local court ruling that had previously overturned the partial ban imposed by Chancellor Friedrich Merz's government on arms exports to Israel.
A Palestinian man had filed a lawsuit against the license granted by the Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control in the state of Hesse to a German arms company that exports tank spare parts.
In September 2025, the Higher Administrative Court of Hesse rejected the appeal against the temporary measure order for arms exports to Israel issued by the Administrative Court of Frankfurt.
It is worth noting that German arms exports to Israel have been a subject of ongoing debate in the country in recent years.
Following the two-year-long genocide perpetrated by Tel Aviv in the Gaza Strip, Germany significantly increased its arms exports to Israel as a show of solidarity.
Before leaving office on May 6, 2025, the government of former German Chancellor Olaf Scholz granted export licenses to Israel worth nearly half a billion euros.
Several lawsuits have been filed in German courts demanding the cancellation of these licenses.
In the summer of 2025, the new German government, headed by Chancellor Friedrich Merz, decided to impose a partial ban on supplying Tel Aviv with weapons that could be used in the war on Gaza, but the courts later overturned this ban.
On October 8, 2023, Israel began a genocide in Gaza that left more than 72,000 Palestinian martyrs, more than 171,000 wounded, and massive destruction affecting 90% of the infrastructure, with reconstruction costs estimated by the United Nations at about $70 billion.
On October 10, 2025, a ceasefire began that was supposed to end the genocide, but Israel has committed hundreds of violations that have resulted to date in the killing of 591 Palestinians and the wounding of 1,578 others, according to the Ministry of Health.
