He has asked the Spanish Government to verify the burden of a suspicious ship of transporting weapons for Israel that has arrived this Friday at the port of Barcelona and will scale in Algeciras (Cádiz) on the next day 6, after passing through Algeciras (Morocco). It is about Maersk Norfolk, of the Danish Naviera Ap Moller-Maersk A/S, which appears in the report of how one of the companies that provide US-logistic armament and logistical support to Israel since the beginning of the current offensive on Gaza in October 2023.
In a letter sent to the Ministries of Foreign Affairs; Transportation; Economy, Commerce and Company, and the Treasury, the Human Rights Defense NGO recalls the Spanish government’s commitment not to export weapons or security equipment to Israel and asks that it ensures that no transit through Spanish ports or airports facilitates, by action or omission, the supply of this material susceptible to being used in the genocide of the Palestinian population.
Amnesty is especially alarmed by the scales of the Maersk Norfolk That, after sailing today in Barcelona, he plans to dock on the 4th in Casablanca (Morocco) and 6 in Algeciras, to return to the 7th Maersk Denver, last November.
The Human Rights Defender NGO acknowledges that it cannot confirm whether the objective of the Maersk Norfolk It is to load in Casablanca military material, components and spare parts of the American combat plane F-35, in service in the Israeli army, previously downloaded by the ship Maersk Atlantafrom Houston (USA), as advanced eldiario.es Citing sources of the Fin Campaign to the Trade of Weapons with Israel, but asks the Government to inform the content of its load, if it was planned to embark material in Barcelona and verify it when it stops in Algeciras after passing through Casablanca.
Although the Spanish government ensures that it does not authorize the ship scale that transports armament to Israel – three cases of denials are known, and; and the and the aforementioned Maersk Denver, In November– Amnesty asks for information to the Government about the measures taken to ensure that there are no transits through Spanish ports or airports and claims to make public the data on authorized and denied transits, as well as the declared load and the actions carried out to verify it. The NGO also asks the Government to permanent the embargo of weapons to Israel and to press other allied countries that provide military material to the Hebrew State (such as the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Romania or Czech Republic) to apply the same measure.
On the other hand, an A400m transport aircraft of the Air Force and the Spanish space has launched on Friday over Gaza 24 parachutes with 500 kilos of humanitarian aid each, 12 tons in total, consisting of 5,500 rations of food with which to feed 11,000 people donated by the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development (AECID). It is a joint operation of Aryan countries, such as Germany and Spain, coordinated from Amán (Jordan) before the famine caused by the Israeli siege to the strip. The Minister of Foreign Affairs has recognized that the launch of parachute aid, in addition to dangerous, is “clearly insufficient.” “We demand much more. Israel has to open all the terrestrial steps permanently so that humanitarian aid between massively. We demand a high fire that allows the distribution of help in Gaza under humanitarian and neutral principles,” said the head of Spanish diplomacy.
In addition, 13 minors and a Palestinian adult from Gaza, with diseases or wounds of difficult treatment, such as heart conditions, landed last Thursday at the Zaragoza Air Base and have been distributed by hospital centers of Catalonia, Basque Country, Navarra and Asturias, in the fourth operation of this type coordinated by the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization.
