The flotilla that carries humanitarian aid to Gaza is getting closer to the strip. Most vessels by the Israeli military, where they have detected an “increase in drone activity”. The Government, which on Tuesday requested that they did not access the waters that Israel has declared as exclusive, recalls that the “absolute and maximum priority is the safety of the people who are in the flotilla.” The president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, indicated on Wednesday since Copenhagen who are in contact with the members of the flotilla and has assured that this humanitarian mission “would not have taken place and the distribution of help” in Gaza. Sánchez has also said that he has transferred to the Netanyahu government that the Spanish members of the flotilla “will have all the diplomatic protection” of Spain and that “do not represent a danger or a threat to Israel”, so he hopes that “the Netanyahu government also does not represent a threat to the flotilla.”
The Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, has alerted this Wednesday to the flotilla that carries supplies and helps Gaza that “it is a huge risk that they assume entering the exclusion zone” delimited by Israel. Robles, who has participated in an act on the geopolitical situation and the defense industry in the Cercle d’Economia de Barcelona, has reiterated, minutes before the act, that the Spanish Navy’s ship ‘Furor’ will not enter the exclusion zone. “It will remain in the surroundings in case it is necessary to do some rescue work, but obviously the fury will not enter the exclusion zone.” “We understand that the work carried out by the flotilla of carrying food and medicines is important but we believe that at this time the responsibility must be put on the balance. There is a risk to the lives of the people who are in the flotilla and also in the fury, and therefore from the responsibility, supporting what could in the case of rescue, the fury will reach the limit of the exclusion waters.” Informs Josep Catá.
In this sense, the Minister for Digital Transformation and Public Function has also been spoken on Wednesday, which has indicated during an interview in TVE that the “absolute and maximum priority is the safety of people who are in the flotilla” and that is the reason why they have recommended to those ships that do not cross the declared waters. “The Netanyahu government is jumping international legality from minute one. But a government has to make decisions and this government is not going to put a Spanish ship into those waters. We have reached where we have been able and we are there,” explained the minister.
“It is very easy to theorize in the plane of international law or in the academic legal level. And another thing is to operate on a reality and the reality is what is: the Netanyahu government is jumping all international law,” López insisted, which recalls that the Executive of Pedro Sánchez has reached “as far as he could, and even more.” In a message on the Bluesky social network, the second vice president of the government, Yolanda Díaz, has said that the flotilla “complies with international law.” “His humanitarian mission towards Gaza is legitimate and necessary. Netanyahu is a war criminal responsible for the genocide against the Palestinian people. It is the only one outside the legality. Spain and the EU must protect the flotilla,” continues its publication.
From the summar movement they describe as “example” the work of the flotilla and highlight that “it is in international waters”, so according to international law “it has free navigation and its burden and objectives are completely legal and enroll in the framework of the resolutions of the United Nations.” Thus, they consider in a statement, “any attempt to prevent the flotilla from developing their humanitarian work is to commit a serious illegality contrary to international law” and affect that “the responsibility of the Government of Spain is not asking them to retire”, but “protect them if they decide to continue.”
The Minister of Youth and Childhood, has affirmed that it continues with “a lot of concern” what happens with the flotilla: “I want to value what the flotilla is doing, which carries medications, food, and puts the focus on the situation that the Palestinian people are living. All empathy, solidarity and wish that nothing happens. It is a gesture of extraordinary humanity that puts us in front of the mirror of what is happening to us. Indicated Rego in an interview in RNE. The minister insists that “we should be working around the possibility of opening humanitarian corridors and that it is the countries that take the step.” “We, within the government, are with a fairly demanding position regarding what is happening in Palestine and we need to go one step further,” said Rego, a member of adding. Asked about whether the ship sent by the Government should be protecting the flotilla, has indicated that “the conversation has to be among several countries, the UN must also be.”
On the request of the Executive to the Flotilla, the general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra, has demanded that the president of the Government “use all the means at his disposal, political, economic and military, to ensure that the flotilla fulfills his mission. The frigate has to serve to comply with his mission, that the escolte, not to do the dirty work to Netyahu.” Belarra has insisted that asking the flotilla not to reach Gaza “makes us complicit in the genocide.” “There are several dozens of Spaniards in that flotilla. It is their responsibility to guarantee their safety and their obligation to fulfill international humanitarian law is that humanitarian aid can be delivered,” he said during a press conference in Congress. Along the same lines, the Eurodiputada of Podemos Irene Montero has that the Executive is asking the flotilla “to abandon the mission” and indicated that “the legal obligation of the government is to protect this Civil Humanitarian mission.” “Stop doing the dirty work to the genocides,” he has settled.
For her part, Vox’s parliamentary spokeswoman, Pepa Millán has indicated at a press conference in Congress that “the Government and the left have used the victims of Gaza as human shields to fly the flag, it is not known of what, because they oppose the peace plan, but it is not a receipt that the president has sent a ship without consulting it with anyone, or with the congress.”
