The Spanish Foreign Minister said the international community should consider sanctions against Israel to stop the war in Gaza.
Several of Israel’s longtime allies have added their voices to the growing international pressure after expanding military operations against Hamas rulers in Gaza, where the 2023 attacks on Israel sparked a devastating war.
The aid lockdown, which lasted for almost three months, exacerbated the shortage of food, water, fuel and medicine on Palestinian territory, and robbed the fear of hunger.
Aid organizations say there is a trickle of supplies that Israel has recently allowed to enter falls that are far below the needs.
The talks in Madrid aim to stop Israel’s “inhuman” and “meaningless” wars in Gaza, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Alvarez told reporters before the meeting began.
Humanitarian assistance “describes the strip as a ‘open wound’ of humanity,’ he added, and needs to enter Gaza “without conditions, no restrictions, no restrictions, no control by Israel.”
“The silence at these moments is an accomplice to this massacre… that’s why we meet,” Alvarez said.
Representatives of European countries, including France, the UK, Germany and Italy, will join envoys from Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Morocco, the Arab Federation and Islamic cooperation organizations.
Norway, Iceland, Ireland and Slovenia, which already recognize the Palestinian state like Spain, are also participating alongside Brazil.
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