IDEX arms and military equipment expo UAE (BETAPHOTO/MINISTRY OF DEFENSE )
In the first six months of 2025, the value of Serbia’s arms exports to Israel stood at around EUR55.5 million, up from EUR47.9 million registered in entire 2024, which was then a record-breaking amount, according to a research conducted by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) and Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz, published on Aug. 5.
The portal said the information was based on customs data available on a website collating Serbian business data, adding that the export dates in the first half of 2025 coincided with the dates of 16 Israeli planes flying from Belgrade to the Nevatim Airbase in Israel, identified by journalists using several live flight tracker websites.
On June 6, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told English-language daily Jerusalem Post that Serbia was the only European country supplying arms to Israel. However, when asked by a reporter on June 23 whether Serbia had taken sides in the Israel-Iran conflict by shipping arms to Israel, Vucic replied that Belgrade had halted arms exports to Israel.
The same day, several after hours following Vucic’s statement, according to BIRN, an Israeli freighter Boing 747 landed at the Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport. The next morning the aircraft headed to Israeli’s Nevatim Airbase, according to data on website Flightradar24.
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