Spain hosted European, Arab nations to pressurize Israel
Spain has called for disregarding arms against the Israeli government to end the war in Gaza, Spanish External Affairs Minister Jose Manual Alberus said on Sunday.He also suggested that targeted sanctions can be imposed on individuals “who obstruct the two-state solution.” “We all should agree on a combined weapon embarrago,” Alberg asked reporters at the beginning of the Madrid Group’s ministerial meeting in the Spanish capital, the purpose of which he aims to stop Israeli’s “inhuman” and “insensitive” war in the Palestinian Enclave. He said, “The last thing that is needed is a weapon.”
What else did Spain’s top diplomat say?
Elbs also said that Spain would propose an immediate suspension of a trade partnership between the European Union and Israel, which is currently reviewing Brussels.Spain, one of the most difficult critics of Israel, the European Union, angered Benjamin Netanyahu last year when he officially recognized Palestine as a state. Ireland, Slovenia and Norway also recognized Palestine in 2024.“There is nothing that is being discussed here, directed against the state of Israel,” Albaras insisted, but said that “Palestinian people have the right to peace and security as Israel’s people.”
International pressure on Israel Mount
Many Western Western colleagues from Israeli have joined the International Call for a meeting in Madrid, which rely in his military aggressive against Gaza’s real ruler Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, who triggered the ongoing war on Southern Israel in October 2023.1,218 people were killed in that terrorist attack, mainly citizens, while Palestinian militants also took 251 people hostage. Israel’s army says that 57 hostage are still in Gaza, including 34 which Israel says that they have died.According to data from Gaza’s Hamas-Interested Health Ministry, Israel’s response has killed around 54,000 people in the Gaza Strip.More than 122,000 people have been injured and most of the enclave buildings and infrastructure have been destroyed.After the collapse of a ceasefire in early March, Israel made a blockade on the surrounded enclave, blocked the entries of food, water, medicine and fuel supply, spoiled the already strict human condition and provoked the possibility of a spectacular famine.Israel said last week that it would allow the “basic amount” of food supply in Gaza, but the aid organizations and the United Nations said that aid is sufficient to reduce the human situation.“The silence in these moments is the complexity in this massacre … that’s why we are meeting,” said Albaras.Ministers and senior representatives of countries and organizations in Europe, including France, UK, Germany and Italy, and Arab world were participating in the meeting. Brazil and Türkiye were also involved.France and Saudi Arabia will preside over the United Nations Conference next month on conflict.
