The Ministry of Foreign Affairs assured this Thursday that “No ship” carrying military equipment to Israel will stop in Spain, ban that includes the two from the United States, whose arrival is scheduled for next week. According to sources from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, any ship transporting military equipment to Israel will not be able to call at Spanish ports.
A situation that Izquierda Unida denounced this week before the State Attorney General’s Office for the alleged transit through the port of Algeciras of ships from the United States carrying weapons and military supplies were heading to Israel. As reported by Izquierda Unida, the deputy of Sumar, Enrique Santiago, learned that “at least 1,185 transits of ships carrying arms shipmentsof military supplies for Israel from the United States” via the Spanish port.
Furthermore, this complaint requests take measures against possible arrivals on November 9 and 15 two new cargo ships from the United States to Israel which, in principle, will transit through Algeciras. And, as stated in the complaint, if they were to transit, they would be committing a crime crime against the rights of peoplepunished by the Penal Code.
From Podemos, its general secretary, Ione Belarra, criticized today on her X account that the The Sánchez government turned a blind eye by preventing the stopover of these two ships coming from the United States and by authorizing the stopover at “25 ships since May.” “It would be much better to allow scale and maintain the burden so that it does not lead to genocide, and not just actions in favor of the gallery,” he demanded.
