Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez calls on the international community to stop supplying Israel with weapons, while condemning Israeli attacks on the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon.
On Friday, Israeli forces fired on a UN observation post in Lebanon, marking the third day in a row that peacekeepers have raised the alarm about Israeli fire on their positions, while Israel claims it is only targeting Hezbollah.
Several UN soldiers have also been injured in the Israeli attacks and, as far as Spain is concerned, there are 650 peacekeepers on the ground, with a Spanish general in charge of the whole mission, which is why the issue is of particular importance to that country.
– Let me at this point criticise and condemn the attacks that the Israeli armed forces are carrying out on the United Nations mission in Lebanon, thundered Sanchez, who has repeatedly denounced Israeli abuses since the start of the invasion of Gaza.
According to Sanchez, it is necessary for the world to stop supplying arms to Israel – and he stressed that Spain already stopped all arms trade with the country a year ago.
– I think it is urgent given what is happening in the Middle East that the international community stops exporting weapons to the Israeli government.
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After France, now Spain calls for Global arms embargo on Israel
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez urged the international community to halt arms sales to Israel following Israeli fire that injured UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon.
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