Spain announced last week that it would cancel a $207 million deal to purchase the Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Litening 5 system, financial newspaper Globes reported Thursday, making it the third major contract that the Spanish government has canceled with Israeli arms companies.

The cancellation came after Madrid approved a total arms embargo on Israel as part of a package of measures aimed at halting what Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has called “the genocide in Gaza.”

The decree prohibits all exports to Israel of defense material and dual-use products or technologies, and the import of such equipment to Spain.

Rafael describes the Litening advanced targeting pod as being “the world’s most widely used, combat-proven targeting and navigation pod,” which excels due to is target detection, recognition and identification sensors.

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