The Government plans to approve in the Council of Ministers next Tuesday a package of sanctions against Israel, in its indiscriminate offensive in Gaza. Benjamin Netanyahu executive has also submitted a famine to the inhabitants of the Strip, where at least 382 dead, 135 of them children are counted, due to the lack of food. Meanwhile, making the viability of a Palestinian state impossible.
The PSOE and Sumar coalition works in the application of an embargo of weapons to Israel without exceptions, and therefore does not restrict the military industry. The intention is to accelerate its entry into force through a Royal Decree, taking advantage of the content of a law proposal that Summar presented last year in Congress. Government’s plans is that the embargo could be applied immediately, according to government sources. The idea is that the embargo prohibits the sale, supply, transfer or export of weapons and technology with direct or indirect destination to Israel. It would apply to both public and private companies. The new law would prohibit the importation of military products from Israel such as firearms, ammunition, riot material or technical assistance.
Yolanda Díaz has advanced this Saturday, on a visit to the city of Alcorcón (Madrid), which to add is working with the PSOE in a set of measures to “break relations with the criminal regime of Netanyahu”, suspend all commercial operations and to “declare persona non grata in Spain to Mr. Netanyahu. ”The minority partner of the Government proposes that the Ministers Israel Katz, Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Yoel Smotrich be applied, as well as prohibit their entry into Spain“ for its incitement to genocide, forced famine and ethnic cleaning ”.
The Second Vice President and Minister of Labor also defends that Spanish ports cannot serve as a transit to arrive weapons to Israel, and insisted on the proposal of law presented to add to seize weapons to Tel Aviv. Díaz pointed out that the objective is to “advance to guarantee international legality and human rights” that Israel does not respect in its response to the terrorist attack of Hamas of October 7, 2023, the worst since the country’s foundation in 1948 with more than 1,200 dead and 250 kidnapped people. Díaz has stressed that you must act with Israel as with Russia after its invasion of Ukraine: “Human rights are not relativable.”
The government has already recognized last year to the state of Palestine. The movement, criticized by the PP despite the fact that in its program it defends the solution of the two states, Norway, Ireland and Slovenia also subscribed. The forecast is that this month take the same step France, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Australia, which would leave the Israel government increasingly isolated in the West, with the United States as its main courage. “I have listened to some politicians in our country to say last year, when we recognize the state of Palestine, which we cannot do outside the European consensus, and we are creating a European consensus,” said Sanchez on Monday in TVE.
Díaz has also supported protests against the participation of the Israel Premier-Technician team around Spain. After protests in the Tour in the Basque Country and Asturias. “Solidarity with the arrested people, the story will judge us,” said the leader of Sumar, who has lamented the inaction of the European Commission and its president, Ursula von der Leyen, which she has accused of practicing “political hypocrisy” for the different response of Brussels to humanitarian crises in Gaza and Ukraine.
