 The novel coronavirus pandemic continues to threaten more and more lives across the world. In India, even as the cases of COVID-19 are soaring, the government seems to be focusing on other things and not on tackling the pandemic. On March 19th, India signed a deal worth 116 million US dollars to buy 16,479 negative light machine guns manufactured by Israeli weapons industries. Due to its poor spending on public health, India has a shortage of testing kits for COVID-19. Government hospitals are ill-equipped and understaffed, while private hospitals are looking for opportunities to profit even from this situation. India has one isolation bed per 84,000 people and one quarantine bed per 36,000. To stall the spread of the virus, the government ordered a three-week lockdown, a period during which millions of precarious workers may not have any security of food or income. Many are walking back to their villages hundreds of kilometers away in the absence of any transport and facing police harassment. The situation demands urgent action and investment in healthcare and ensuring food security to the urban and rural poor and yet we have 116 million dollars being spent on Israeli guns. Arms deals between India and Israel have increased significantly ever since the far-right government under Narendra Modi took power in 2014. Reports have shown that India buys nearly 50% of Israel's arms exports costing the state approximately 1 billion dollars each year. Lately, private Indian companies including corporations like Tata, Adani and Reliance have also begun entering into joint ventures with Israeli defense companies. Drone surveillance systems as well as small arms form a major section of arms import and joint ventures. These 116 million dollars are going into financing the occupation of Palestinian territories. Yet another place with a fatal threat posed by the coronavirus is exacerbated immensely by the Israeli apartheid and colonialism. In the besieged Gaza Strip, there are only 40 ICU beds and 56 ventilators for 2 million people living under the Israeli blockade. The occupied West Bank faces similar dire shortages in terms of healthcare due to Israeli policies. Even as home demolitions and raids by Israeli forces continue, Palestinian prisoners continue to be locked in overcrowded Israeli jails, where four cases of the coronavirus have been recorded. It is a glaring fact that India's healthcare infrastructure is in shambles because its government would rather buy Israeli guns than build more hospitals. Israel can continue its colonialism and apartheid because regimes across the world continue to be complicit in its war crimes, buying arms, sending military aid and abetting the denial of basic rights and dignity to Palestinians and fundamentally diverting public resources to support apartheid. In this way, a call for a military embargo on Israel is linked to asking for the same public money to be spent on health, education and other forms of public infrastructure.