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 voiced the growing international pressure after expanding military operations against Gaza.
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, like Spain, already recognize the Palestinian state, but are participating alongside Brazil.
Time for action
Sunday’s meeting also promoted the two states’ solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa said, “We want to move as quickly as possible in peace that allows Palestine and Israel to coexist and bring stability and security to the entire region.”
Alvarez told Cadena Cell Radio after the summit that he made progress by including EU forces like France, Germany and Italy in the form. They “never give up on peace in the Middle East,” he said.
The diplomatic drive comes a month before the UN Conference on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, chaired by France and Saudi Arabia in New York.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said his country supports a UN resolution aimed at enhancing aid access to Gaza and retaining Israel to explain its international humanitarian duties.