Stop exporting weapons to Israel – Spanish PM charges Int’l community

As the Middle East hostilities continue to spread, the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has charged the international community to stop selling weapons to Israel.

He also denounced attacks by Israel’s armed forces against the United Nations’ peacekeeping force in Lebanon.

He asiad this after meeting Pope Francis at the Vatican.

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Spain has been critical of Israel in the recent escalation of the conflict in the Middle East.

Recall that the Israeli forces fired at an observation post used by UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon on Friday, injuring two, a UN source said, the third day in a row.

Peacekeepers have reported Israeli fire at their positions as Israel wages war on Hezbollah.

Speaking on the attack, Sanchez said: “Let me at this point criticize and condemn the attacks that the Israeli armed forces are carrying out on the United Nations mission in Lebanon.”

Sanchez explained that Spain stopped selling weapons to Israel in October 2023 and urged the rest of the world to do the same to prevent further escalation in the region.

“I think it is urgent given what is happening in the Middle East that the international community stops exporting weapons to the Israeli government,” he said.

None of the Spanish soldiers who were part of the mission were affected, the Spanish Defense Ministry said on Friday.

Spain has deployed 650 peacekeepers in Lebanon and a Spanish general leads the mission.