The PSOE will support in Congress a law for the embargo of weapons to Israel | Spain

The PSOE will support on Tuesday in the Plenary of Congress a proposal of law to prevent the sale of military material with Israel. In full massacre in Gaza, which has already left more than 50,000 dead since October 2023 and has Intensified from the weekend bombingparliamentary sources of the Socialist Group have finally confirmed their vote in favor of the initiative « To push the government » and make even clearer the position of Pedro Sánchez, leader in the international scene against the current behavior of Israel. The debate also occurs in full hangover of the Eurovision Festival, of which the President of the Government has asked for the expulsion of Israel. With the PSOE yes, the text depends for approval of what Junts does, which he has not wanted to anticipate his vote. The PP either.

The rule, which begins its parliamentary tour this afternoon with the discussion about its admission to process, is signed by adding and the mixed group and proposes a Modification of the figure of the embargo of weapons and its legal regime. As defined, an embargo will be declared to those states that have been “demanded before an international court whose jurisdiction has been ratified by Spain” by the commission of a “crime of genocide, crimes against humanity, serious infractions of the Geneva agreements of 1949, attacks directed against civil assets or civil people protected as such”. « It would be a sample of government and Spanish society against the war in Gaza, » said the spokeswoman, Verónica Barbero, at a press conference. The text would not only serve the case of Israel, but would define future commercial relations to other conflicts.

The proposition of the law includes that any resource that serves the Army of Israel is prohibited in its offensive against the Palestinian people, even if it is police material and riot or fuel for aircraft, combat cars and other vehicles, through a modification of the current regulations on the foreign trade control of defense and double use material.

The legislative proposal also incorporates a surveillance protocol so that the Government deploys the inspection of the load of aircraft and ships that pass through Spain to “a third country”, provided that “it can be“ rationally inferred that its load can have as its last destination the territory of a state affected by an embargo ”, explains. The initiative stipulates that the authorizations of operations of sale of military and police material will be revoked at the time of the declaration of the embargo, as well as the prohibition of new authorizations.

The PSOE spokesman Patxi López has clarified in Congress that the Socialists will support this proposal at this time, which once had an unfavorable report of the Government, because he understands that sometimes the parliamentary group is to “push” the Executive and achieve “that the position is even clearer” of the president. López challenged all the parties of the parliamentary left that usually support the government, but that in the issue of Israel still demand more drastic measures against that country, to present any leader who has confronted in a more open and direct way than Pedro Sánchez with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamín Netanyahu.