The government will send 12,000 kilos of food to Gaza From an A400M plane that will fly over the strip and from where packages will be launched with the help of a network and parachute in order to help alleviate the “induced famine” in this Palestinian territory, adding this action to trucks with Spanish humanitarian aid that wait to cross the border from Israel
This has been confirmed by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchezafter the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albaresfrom New York, where on Monday will defend at the UN Headquarters the solution of the two states for Israel and Palestine. The head of Spanish diplomacy has detailed that sending the equivalent to 5,500 food rationswhich will be sent to Gaza through the Spanish International Cooperation Agency (AECID), will arrive from August 1 waiting to enter the Gaza Strip, before “a very difficult time for the Palestinian people.”
For its part, the Ministry of Defense has reported in a statement that in the Zaragoza Air Base Air and space army staff already works on the adaptation of a A400m planeand throughout the associated logistics, to be able to transport the 12 tons of food to Gaza. It is an action similar to that carried out in March 2024, in which dozens of military of wing 31 and the operations command participate, which will allow the launch of the aid, in an operation that includes the load of the packages with a network prepared for their release and the use of parachutes during the descent.
The Ministry led by Margarita Robles recalled that the Air and Space Army participates in Humanitarian missions In various ways, including, transport of aid, medical aeroevacuations, support in peace operations or help to civil population in emergency situations.
Denunciation of the “induced famine”
The Foreign Minister has denounced “the famine induced in Gaza” that charges “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 has detailed. In his opinion,” the time has come “to act and you cannot” wait for tomorrow “, and it must be done” for justice for the Palestinian people “and” to guarantee the peace and security of all in the Middle East, “including,” of course, Israel. “
Albares has also referred to the High Level International Conference which is celebrated 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 Palestine statethat we must stand 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 up “that Palestinian state.
Asked about whether this claim has little value, since it is not expected that the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahutake 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 has stressed 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 on the existence or not of the state of Palestineon 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 the Palestinians, “he said.
