US EditionSpain Approves ‘Total’ Arms Embargo on Israel over ‘Genocide in Gaza’
Spain bans arms sales, fuel transit, and imports from Israeli settlements to pressure Israel over Gaza violence, reporting €1.8 million exports and €33.4 million imports linked to defense.
- On Tuesday, Spain's Council of Ministers approved a decree-law consolidating a total arms embargo on Israel and banning use of Spanish ports and airspace for fuel transit, effective immediately but requiring Spanish Congress ratification within 30 days.
- Earlier this month the government included the embargo within a nine-point sanctions package, following the Israeli offensive launched after the October 7, 2023 attacks by Hamas.
- Spain will prohibit defence and dual-use product sales to Israel, and Cuerpo said, `'We are consolidating the total arms embargo on Israel and the import ban on products from illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine,'` said Economy, Trade and Business Minister Carlos Cuerpo.
- Sumar called the embargo a pioneering step that paves the way for EU action, while the People's Party left support "up in the air" and Ester Munoz warned of risks to Spanish security from Israeli-origin components.
- Spain has formally recognised a Palestinian state and, according to a ministerial report, cancelled major defence programmes linked to Israeli firms, including SILAM, Spike LR2, and Litening 5.
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The prohibition on buying or selling arms from the Israeli State has entered into force on Wednesday with its publication of the decree in the Official State GazetteClaves of the arms embargo on Israel The Government of Pedro Sánchez approved on Tuesday the decree on the embargo on the sale of arms to Israel, as a measure of pressure in the face of the genocide in Gaza being perpetrated by the Executive of Benjamin Netanyahu. The text, the full …
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Spain approves 'total' arms embargo against Israel
The Spanish government approved Tuesday a "total" arms embargo on Israel, part of a package of measures aimed at halting what Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called "the genocide in Gaza".
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez—an outspoken critic of Israel—called on Monday for a state of Palestine to be admitted to the United Nations, after a French-led summit on recognition. Alongside those proposals, his government approved a “total” arms embargo on Israel, part of a package of measures aimed at halting what Sánchez called “the genocide in Gaza.” Spain, like Ireland and Norway, already recognised a Palestinian state in May. PM Sá…
The Spanish government today approved a "total" arms embargo on Israel, as part of a package of measures aimed at ending the "genocide in Gaza," as Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said earlier.
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