He European Parliament has supported This Thursday proposal of Brussels to and stop community bilateral aid to this country. On the contrary, A consensus has not been reached to refer to Israeli siege in Gaza as a genocide.
The text about the suspension of the Association Agreement with the country led by Netanyahu (which is not binding) has come forward with 305 votes in favor, 151 against and 122 abstentions.
The European Popular Party has voted divided: 82 deputies have done it in favor, 56 against (including several deputies of the German CDU) and a small group has refrained; The rest of the support for the resolution has left the social democratic, liberal and green groups and a fraction of the left.
The vote has taken place after almost three days of continuous negotiations in which the PPE came to uncheck the text To which his negotiator, Antonio López Istúriz, had contributed with his counterparts of the social democrats, green and liberals.
Nevertheless, The situation changed after the speech of the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyenin the debate of the State of the European Union, where The German proposed to partially suspend the association agreementsanction the extremist Israeli ministers and violent settlers and stop bilateral aid to Israel.
Popular sources assure Efe that His bench, including German CDU herself, was not aware of what I was going to announce And it was only after the speech when it was decided to return to the negotiating table so that the PPE line in the Eurocamara did not diverge in excess of the one that the president of the European Commission had just presented.
Of the more than 50 amendments presented initially, a good part of them have retired during the morning and otherslike those containing references to genocide, They have been rejected.
Amendments to the text
The PPE has managed to carry out some amendments to reduce the ambition of the resolutioneliminating for example the mention of “the continuous escalation of the war in Gaza caused by Israeli military operations” to replace it with “the continuous military operations in the Gaza Strip”, which does not specifically mention Israel.
Besides, He has erased two references that the famine in Gaza is “provoked” and another to which some Israeli ministers, for those who ask for European sanctions, “openly claim genocidal actions.”
Finally, The genocide is mentioned only in an exhibition of facts on the case presented by South Africa before the International Court of Justice (CIJ) on the application of the Convention for the Prevention and Sanction of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip.
In the agreed text, the MEPs express their concern about “the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip”they need to protect and ensure the distribution of humanitarian aid, They ask for a permanent and immediate fire and demand the release of all hostages while condemning Hamas’s crimes against Israel.
Among the Spanish matchesThey have voted In favor of almost the entire PP, the PSOE and the PNVwhile they have voted against Vox, Podemos, the popular Nicolás Pascual of the part and Luis ‘Alise’ Pérez (the party is over). For its part, The two former deputies of the party have been abstained that now they concur as independent in the ultraconservative (ECR) group, as well as Bildu, Compromís, Comuns and the BNG.
The extensive resolution es The first about the situation in Gaza in more than a year of the current legislature.
