Add seeks to raise the pressure on Israel and ask for the withdrawal of the ambassador to Tel Aviv | Spain

Less than a week after Congress took the first step to Approve an embargo from arms to Israelthe minority partner of the Government redoubles the pressure on the Ultra Executive of Benjamín Netanyahu. The spokesman to add, Ernest Urtasun, has formally asked this Monday at a press conference that Spain withdraws his ambassador to Tel Aviv, Ana María Salomón Pérez, appointed by the Government of Pedro Sánchez in 2021. The petition occurs one day after the meeting led in Madrid by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares. The meeting with representatives from 20 European and Arab countries served to promote international coalition that presses Israel with sanctions that can break the blockade of humanitarian aid to Gaza and move towards the formula of the two states (the Israeli and the Palestinian) as a way to stop the conflict in the Middle East.

« The margin of diplomatic pressure is not yet exhausted and we can do more, » said Urtasun, also Minister of Culture, during his appearance. « The International Front is important, » he granted on the summit of Sunday, which has celebrated some of the proposed measures, « but there are duties that we have to do at home. There are things that depend on us. Apply the embargo of arms and withdraw the ambassador depend on us, » he insisted. For Urtasun « it is not consistent » to keep the diplomat while the immediate suspension of the association agreement between Israel and the EU is claimed, for example. The petition also produces in a context of recruiting the situation in Gaza, with a unprecedented Israeli army offensive In a war that leaves more 50,000 dead Palestinians.

Add, Podemos, BNG, ERC and EH Bildu last week sent a letter to the Congress table, the Chamber of the Chamber of the Chamber, to request that the proposal of law on the control of foreign trade of defense and double use material be processed by the emergency procedure. The table, where PSOE and Add have a majority, must decide at their meeting on Tuesday whether or not to accept that proposal, which would reduce the deadlines of the processing to half and at the moment the socialists have not spoken.

Last Wednesday, government sources reduced the importance of the measure approved one day before, calling it more of « symbolic » than real because in practice « it is very difficult » to apply. « Real is very real. It is so much that it is illegal, and that, therefore, someone can report before a judge when there is embargo, that someone is buying or selling material to Israel. More real than this … », Urtasun replied.