‘Moral decision’: Kerala firm stops uniform sales to Israel police

An Indian firm is terminating a longstanding contract to make uniforms for the Israeli police, telling AFP yesterday that it had made a "moral decision" in light of the war in Gaza.

Maryan Apparel in the southern state of Kerala said it had supplied around 100,000 uniforms to Israel's police force for every year since 2015.

"It is a moral decision," the company's managing director Thomas Olickal told AFP.

Olickal said in a Wednesday statement that a strike on a hospital and the "loss of thousands of innocent lives" in the conflict had prompted the decision.

Olickal told AFP his firm will fulfil its existing commitments to Israel, which end in December, but will not take new orders.

"We are okay resuming business with them after peace is restored," added Olickal, who employs around 1,500 people at his firm.