Spain will send 12,000 kilos of food to Gaza to help alleviate the “induced famine”
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares, has announced that Spain will send 12,000 kilos of food to Gaza to help alleviate the “induced famine”, and that they will add to trucks with Spanish humanitarian aid that wait to cross the border from Israel.
Speaking to the media upon arrival in New York, where on Monday the solution of the two states for Israel and Palestine, the head of Spanish diplomacy has announced the sending of the equivalent of 5,500 rations of food that will be sent to Gaza through the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECID).
Albares has denounced “the famine induced in Gaza” that is charged “every day” the life of human beings for not having access “to a meal that is stacked on the borders of Gaza.” “100,000 children, 40,000 of them babies, are at risk of death in the next few days,” he said.
Therefore, he stressed the importance of this food sending, which will arrive from next August 1 waiting to enter the strip, before “a very difficult time for the Palestinian people.” In his opinion, “the time has come” to act and you cannot “wait for tomorrow”, and you must “for justice for the Palestinian people” and “to guarantee the peace and safety of all in the Middle East”, including, “of course, Israel.”
Albares has referred in an interview in RNE to the high -level international conference held this Monday at the UN headquarters for the Pacific arrangement of the Palestine issue, and has claimed the need for the solution of the two states. “There is a state that already exists that it is Israel and we defend its existence, but the other is missing the state of Palestine, which must be stood up,” he said, insisting that the “terrible induced famine” would not have to happen and that, therefore, this conference “is more important than ever to stand” that Palestinian state.
Asked if this claim is not little value, since it is not expected that the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, take some step in the recognition of Palestine, the Foreign Minister has admitted that “of course” that there is no indication that something like this happens, but it has emphasized the importance of this conference so that it is the international community that recognizes the two states. “We cannot give the Government of Israel a kind of veto right about the existence or not of the state of Palestine, about whether or not gaza’s children and babies can eat, about whether the Palestinian people have the right to peace or not, about whether illegal settlements will continue to extend in the West Bank or not. It cannot be that it is in the hands of the government of Israel to decide things like the life or death of Palestinians, ”he said. (EP)
