Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Monday urged European Union member states to respond to Spain and Ireland’s request to suspend the free trade agreement between the bloc and Israel, due to its crimes in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.
The Spanish Prime Minister stressed the need for Israel to stop its dual invasion of Gaza and Lebanon, stressing that preventing the export of weapons to Israel is important, because it is still bombing civilians in the Strip.
For several months, Spain and Ireland have been holding talks with other European Union countries that want to conduct a review of the Association Agreement between the Union and Israel, due to Tel Aviv’s violation of the human rights clause in the agreement.
This call sparked discussions within the European Union about continuing economic relations with Israel, in light of the current events in the region.
The ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza for a year, with great American support, left more than 140,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children and the elderly.
Tel Aviv continues the war of genocide, ignoring the UN Security Council resolution to end it immediately, and the orders of the International Court of Justice to take measures to prevent acts of genocide and improve the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza.
Since last September 23, Israel has expanded the scope of the genocide it has been committing in Gaza since October 7, 2023, to include most of Lebanon’s regions, including the capital, Beirut, through air raids of unprecedented violence and intensity, and it also began a ground incursion into its south, striking… Disregarding international warnings and UN resolutions, which caused more than 2,300 martyrs and about 11,000 wounded.
