‘I believe it is urgent that, in light of everything that is happening in the Middle East, the international community stops exporting weapons to the government of Israel,’ said Pedro Sanchez.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Friday urged other countries to stop supplying weapons to Israel, continuing Spain’s harsh rhetoric toward the Jewish state since the start of the Gaza war last October.
“I believe it is urgent that, in light of everything that is happening in the Middle East, the international community stops exporting weapons to the government of Israel,” Sanchez told reporters after meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican in Rome.
“This is an appeal that I will make … to the entire international community,” the socialist leader added, saying it was important “not to contribute in one way or another to the escalation of violence and to the war and its expansion in Gaza, the West Bank or, in this case, to Lebanon.”