There is an acute shortage of 155 mm shells in the world, so Israel buys them from faraway Serbia

In 2024, the volume of ammunition and weapons exports from Serbia to Israel increased 30 times, reaching €42.3 million. For comparison, in 2023, this figure was only €1.4 million.
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Israel purchased 155 mm shells from Serbia, which highlights the global shortage of artillery ammunition of this calibre. As Defence24 notes, this kind of armed alliance between Belgrade and Tel Aviv was hardly imaginable in early 2023.
Investigations by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz and the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) confirm the supply of arms and ammunition from Serbia to Israel. The exporter was the state-owned defence company Jugoimport SDPR, and the deliveries were made by transport aircraft, especially intensively in November-December 2024 and January 2025, when at least three flights were recorded.
Ammunition was delivered to the Israeli Air Force Nevatim airbase. One of the pieces of evidence was a photo of pallets of 155mm shells taken at Belgrade airport. Israel's arms purchases from Serbia began after the outbreak of hostilities in the Gaza Strip. Serbia is one of the producers of artillery systems, including 155mm shells and the Nora B-52 wheeled self-propelled artillery system.

Serbian 155mm Nora B52 self-propelled artillery systems. Illustration: Yugoimport
According to The Military Balance 2024, at the beginning of 2024, Israel had 250 M109A5 self-propelled artillery systems in service, as well as 30 M109A2 self-propelled artillery systems and 171 towed 155 mm artillery systems in storage.
During the first month of hostilities in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army used about 100,000 155 mm shells. Such a high level of ammunition consumption has forced Israel to look for new sources of supply, in particular in Serbia.
Source: Defence24