{"id":2775,"date":"2025-09-08T14:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T14:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/2775\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T14:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T14:09:07","slug":"spain-imposes-permanent-weapons-embargo-on-israel-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/2775\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain imposes permanent weapons embargo on Israel \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Protecting your country and your society is one thing; bombing hospitals and starving children is another,” he added, stressing Spain’s responsibility to do whatever it can to halt “what the U.N. special rapporteur and many experts consider a genocide<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

The package of measures announced by S\u00e1nchez forbids people who have “directly participated in genocide, human rights violations and war crimes in the Gaza Strip” from entering Spain. The prime minister did not clarify how the participation would be assessed, or how those individuals would be identified.<\/p>\n

The package also includes new restrictions on consular services offered to Spanish citizens residing in illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, as well as a total ban on products imported from occupied territories.<\/p>\n

S\u00e1nchez has long been one of the EU’s most vocal critics of Israel’s military assault on Gaza and last year recognized Palestinian statehood<\/a>. But the left-wing Sumar party, junior members in S\u00e1nchez’s fragile minority government, has been pressuring the Socialist prime minister to take more aggressive action to support Gaza. <\/p>\n

Sumar leader and Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda D\u00edaz on Monday celebrated the adoption of the new measures, but urged S\u00e1nchez to go even further and withdraw Spain’s ambassador<\/a> from Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n

In response to S\u00e1nchez’s announcement, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar\u00a0accused<\/a> the Spanish government of being “antisemitic” and using a “hostile anti-Israeli line” to “distract attention from serious corruption scandals.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Protecting your country and your society is one thing; bombing hospitals and starving children is another,” he added,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3797,3798,42,46,61,3799,47,43,3800,3801,2727,3802,40,38,41,39,3803,3804],"class_list":["post-2775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-ammunition","tag-fuels","tag-headlines","tag-israel","tag-israel-hamas-war","tag-israeli-palestinian-conflict","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-pedro-sanchez","tag-ports","tag-spain","tag-spanish-politics","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-weapons","tag-yolanda-diaz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}