Former mayor of Barcelona Ada Colau and the MEP Jaume Asens reported an Israeli army attack on the convoy they were traveling in West Bank.
As Asens explains in a video posted on social media, both were in the Nablus area, in the northern West Bank, when the Israeli army “He fired stun bullets and tear gas against the peasants and the international delegation” which was traveling in the convoy.
Both were accompanying, with an international delegation, a group of farmers to work “in the olive harvest” when, according to their version, the Israeli army attacked the convoy “with deafening bullets and tear gas”. In the video that accompanies these lines, Asens appears, dressed in a shirt and jacket, recording himself and recounting what happened.
Furthermore, Asens accused the government of being “complicit” with Israel, which it continues to “support militarily, politically and economically”, and said that Fernando Grande-Marlaska “misses the truth” when he says that weapons cannot be bought. or sold to this country.
This was expressed in an interview with Be on chain in which he also criticizes the fact that relations are not severed with a state which, according to him, “practices genocide and fuels the war machine”.
Colau and Asens in Israel
Colau and Asens traveled this Monday, October 28 with an international delegation to “investigate systematic violations of international law.”
The delegation, coordinated by Progressive International and the US National Lawyers Guild, brings together legal experts, human rights advocates and international parliamentary representatives, according to Progressive International in a social media post.
“We came with an international delegation not only to observe, but also to demand a total arms embargo against Israel to end the genocide, dismantle the occupation and defend international law,” Colau explained on Monday.
