The Spanish authorities is looking for a world arms embargo on Israel to finish the battle and the humanitarian disaster within the Gaza Strip.
“We must all agree on a joint arms embargo,” Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares advised journalists firstly of a ministerial assembly of the so-called Madrid Group within the Spanish capital on Sunday. “The last thing the Middle East needs right now is weapons.”
Albares additionally known as for an “immediate suspension” of the European Union‘s partnership settlement with Israel – a measure at present being thought of in Brussels – and for the imposition of focused sanctions towards people “who obstruct the two-state solution.”
If obligatory, sanctions must also be imposed towards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Albares asserted.
“Nothing that is being discussed here is directed against the State of Israel,” the highest Spanish diplomat emphasised. But he additionally made it clear that “the Palestinian people have exactly the same right to peace and security as the Israeli people.”
There isn’t any different to the two-state answer for reaching lasting and simply peace, Albares stated.
In an interview with French broadcaster France Info shortly earlier than, the minister had stated: “What is the alternative? Kill all Palestinians? Drive them… I don’t know where… to the moon? (…) Or give them Israeli citizenship?”
The Spanish authorities is among the harshest critics in Europe of Israel’s army motion in Gaza.
Source: www.anews.com.tr