Belarra condemns the EU’s “inaction” which is turning them into “accomplices in a planned genocide.”
Spain’s Minister of Social Rights, Ione Belarra, released a video on social platform X to urge European leaders to cut ties with “Israel,” after calling out world leaders for allowing the occupation to commit “crimes against humanity” with impunity.
“The Gaza Strip has experienced a hellish night. Israel is not only massively bombing an absolutely defenseless population which includes children, pregnant women, and older people, but also Israel has ended all communication. Internet, phone is cut in the Gaza Strip,” she said.
She condemned the EU’s inaction” which is turning them into “accomplices in a planned genocide,” because since “Israel’s” international alliances “guarantee its impunity”, the atrocities are intensifying.
“Cut diplomatic ties with Israel, carry out exemplary economic sanctions against those responsible for this genocide, and without a doubt let’s take [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu before the International Criminal Court so that he can be tried for what he is: a war criminal,” she added.
“We have to act now, tomorrow will be late, we have to do it today.”
Citizens of Europe were also urged by Belarra to participate in pro-Palestine protests to “end the genocide.”
This comes as Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said on Tuesday that the Spanish government has raised humanitarian aid to Palestine to 21 million euros ($22.4 million) and expects to triple this amount in the near future.
Source: AlMayadeen