gl. Spain has become the first European county to join South Africa’s lawsuit against Israel due for violating the Genocide Convention. Previously, only Nicaragua, Columbia, Libya and Mexico have taken this measure. Other countries such as Ireland, Belgium, Egypt, Turkey, Chile and the Maldives have already announced to support the lawsuit. The Spanish Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares confirmed in an interview with ‘El Pais’, what prompted Spain to do so. The protection measures that Israel is obliged to respect according to the International Court of Justice, were in no way respected. “We have seen the horrible situation of the Palestinian people, the fact that no distinction was made between military and civil targets, that hospitals and schools are attacked … We could see that there was no desire to respect the protection measures.”
Spain wanted to achieve that the Gaza strip would no longer be bombed. A great majority of the Spanish people support this position of the Spanish government. •
Source: El País of 7 June 2024;
https://elpais.com/internacional/2024-06-07/albares-espana-no-va-contra-israel-lo-que-buscamos-es-parar-la-guerra.html
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