The international community should seek to impose sanctions on Israel to arrest its war in Gaza, said Spanish Foreign Minister, during a Madrid meeting in European and Arab nations, urging the judgment of the punishing offensive of Israel in which Palestinian deaths and the spread of famine increases every day.
High -level talks on Sunday are the fifth official meeting of what is known as “the Madrid group”.
The countries of the European Union that Israel has long been counting on close allies added their voices to increasing global pressure after expanding military operations in the besieged and bombed Gaza Strip.
A blockade of aid of almost three months has worsened the shortages of food, water, fuel and drugs in the Palestinian enclave, which was devastated and ravaged due to the implacable war of Israel which followed the attack led by October 7 of October 7 in 2023.
Barely no help has crossed Gaza since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a week ago when Israel would allow limited aid to support the concerns of the allies.
The United Nations have said that the amount of assistance authorized so far is a “drop in the ocean”, while certain aid groups have described Netanyahu’s announcement as a “smoke screen”.
Help organizations claim that the Israel supplies net which has enabled it to enter in recent days does not fall under needs, which is between 500 and 600 trucks per day. Israel has granted a hundred trucks carrying aid to Gaza since Wednesday, according to officials.
Madrid, in Spain, welcomes 20 countries as well as international organizations on Sunday in order to “arrest this war, which has no more objective,” said Spanish Foreign Affairs Minister Jose Manuel Albares.
“Right now, in this humanitarian disaster in Gaza, we aim to … stop this war … (and) break the blockade of humanitarian aid which must go without hindrance,” Albares told Tel Aviv Tribune before the meeting.
Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority Mohammad Mustafa said he hoped that the Israeli government would stop “famine” and “genocide” in Gaza, saying that many countries around the world “clearly disappear”.
For his part, the Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Badr Abdel Atty, said that there was a “lack of political will on the Israeli side” to end the war.
“This is the main problem,” said Abdel Atty. “But we will continue to try, we will apply maximum pressure, we will continue to exercise our maximum efforts in order to put pressure for a cease-fire”.
‘We must consider the sanctions’
The Madrid meeting served as a preparation for a high -level United Nations conference on the two -state solution, which France and Saudi Arabia welcomed in New York on June 17.
“We want to create a momentum” before the United Nations Conference, said Albares, so that “everyone” can recognize Palestine as an independent state.
“This conference in New York must be a great moment to push for the recognition of Palestine’s state,” he added.
Such an earlier rally in Madrid brought together countries last year such as Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkiye as well as European Nations such as Norway and the Republic of Ireland which recognized a Palestinian State.
The meeting of Sunday, which also includes representatives of the Arab League and the organization of Islamic cooperation, will stroll a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
After the EU has decided this week to review its cooperation agreement with Israel, Albares said: “We must consider the sanctions, we have to do everything, consider everything to arrest this war.”
On Sunday, the Deputy Minister of Affairs of German Affairs, Florian Hahn, also warned against the impact of the deterioration of the “unbearable” humanitarian crisis in Gaza, calling for an immediate cease-fire and a diplomatic solution.
Hahn stressed that putting an end to the war in Gaza and creating a path for diplomatic efforts to a political solution is currently one of the main priorities of the German foreign policy.
Hachem Ahelbarra of Tel Aviv Tribune, reporting from Madrid, said that Sunday’s meeting would be “crucial”.
The members will “seek the potential of new political talks that could be conducive to the Israelis who result from it with the Palestinians, discussing the need to end the war and reach a Palestinian state,” said Ahelbarra.
Israel’s deadly assault killed nearly 54,000 people, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, mainly women and children.
