Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez referred to as on Saturday for stress to cease Israel’s “massacre in Gaza” and mentioned Madrid plans a UN decision requesting a world courtroom ruling on help entry to the Palestinian territory.
Sanchez instructed an Arab League summit in Baghdad that the warfare triggered by Hamas’s October 2023 assault on Israel has led to “unacceptable numbers” of victims in Gaza, violating the “principle of humanity”.
“The extremely grave humanitarian crisis Gaza has endured since October 2023 has caused more than 50,000 dead, 100,000 wounded and two million displaced,” mentioned Sanchez, who has sharply criticised the Israeli offensive.
World leaders ought to “intensify our pressure on Israel to halt the massacre in Gaza, particularly through the channels afforded to us by international law”, he mentioned.
The Socialist prime minister mentioned Spain will “submit to the United Nations General Assembly a proposal to ask the International Court of Justice to rule on Israel’s compliance with its international obligations on humanitarian aid access to Gaza”, underneath a whole help blockade since March 2.
Sanchez mentioned Spain would additionally again one other draft UN decision calling on Israel to “end the humanitarian blockade” and assure “full and unrestricted access for humanitarian aid” to enter Gaza.
On May 7, Sanchez instructed the Spanish parliament that Madrid would current a draft decision on the UN General Assembly aimed toward “proposing urgent measures to stop the killing of innocent civilians and ensure humanitarian aid” in Gaza.
Speaking in Baghdad on Saturday, he mentioned that selling “a political solution” to the battle was a precedence.
“The only path towards peace in the region” is “the implementation of the two-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian battle, he mentioned.
“I wish once again to urge other countries to recognise the State of Palestine.”
He expressed hope for progress in a global convention on the two-state answer deliberate for June in Saudi Arabia, which represents “a historic opportunity”.
But Sanchez mentioned that “it will only succeed if there is broad Arab and European consensus that leads to firm action by the entire international community”.
Source: www.anews.com.tr