27/6/2025–|Last update: 09:16 (Mecca time)
On Thursday, Madrid summoned the Chargé d’Affaires at the Israeli embassy to protest against its “unacceptable” statement, in which he said that Spain stands “on the wrong side” of history, due to its Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s announcement in Brussels that the Gaza Strip is witnessing “genocide”.
On Thursday, Sanchez denounced in Brussels the “catastrophic situation of genocide” in Gaza, and called for an immediate comment of the partnership agreement between the European Union and Israel.
The Israeli embassy replied with a statement in the Spanish language in which it said that the position of Sanchez “is not morally defended” and Spain “unfortunately, in the wrong side of history,” adding that “the position taken by the Spanish government puts Spain on the most extreme margins of the European position.”
The Chargé d’Affairs is the highest diplomat at the Israeli embassy in Spain since the Benjamin Netanyahu government summoned in November 2023 its ambassador to consult in protest against previous statements made by Sanchez on Gaza as well and expressed his “doubts” about respecting humanitarian law in the Palestinian sector.
And the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has previously summoned the first official at the Israeli embassy in Madrid in November 2023, October 2024, and May 2025, due to incidents that occurred since the beginning of the Israeli war on Gaza.
The Spanish Prime Minister, who is considered one of the most prominent European voices critical of the Israeli government and its war on the Gaza Strip, called for “providing immediate and urgent access to humanitarian aid” to the Palestinian sector, provided that the United Nations will deliver this aid.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has committed American support for genocide in Gaza, including killing, starvation, destruction and forced displacement, ignoring all international calls and the orders of the International Court of Justice to stop it.
The extermination left more than 188,000 Palestinians between a martyr and wounded – most of them children and women – and more than 11 thousand missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands of displaced people and the famine that has been tired of many lives, including children.
