Spain’s opposition party accuses government of hypocrisy regarding arms sales to Israel
MADRID (AA) – Spain’s left-wing opposition Podemos party has accused the government of hypocrisy regarding arms sales to Israel.
Deliberating on a report by the Delas Center for Peace Studies that examined arms exports to Israel in 2022-23, the party’s leader Ione Belarra argued that arms exports to Israel from Spain since October 7, 2023, amounted to €1.27 billion ($1.37 billion).
These facts contradict Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s and Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares’ claims that no arms sales to Israel occurred since the beginning of Israeli army attacks on the Gaza Strip last October, she added.
In her comments on social media, Belarra said, “I have no words to describe the shame I feel about the hypocrisy of the Spanish Government.”
Flouting a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire, Israel has continued its brutal offensive on Gaza since October. It has killed more than 38,200 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and wounded nearly 88,000 others.
Nine months into the Israeli war, vast tracts of Gaza lie in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water, and medicine.
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