overwhelming<\/a> local authorities and prompting Spain to deploy additional police and military personnel. Spanish authorities initially estimated that about 50,000 people crossed. Later estimates put the number at roughly 72,000. Most subsequently returned to Morocco. At least 72 people died during the crossings, according to Spanish authorities.<\/p>\nACOM said its campaign featured two fully wrapped buses that traveled Madrid\u2019s major streets for 10 hours a day. Other messages included: \u201cIsrael did what it had to do: defend itself\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t confuse the victim with the culprit.\u201d<\/p>\n
The buses traveled near landmarks including the Agriculture Ministry in Atocha, the KIO Towers in Plaza de Castilla and Plaza de Cibeles. ACOM estimated that the campaign generated between 160,000 and 280,000 street impressions over the two days.<\/p>\n
The Ceuta migrants \u201cdid not come in to murder families or to massacre a festival,\u201d ACOM stated. The juxtaposition, the organization\u2019s founder and CEO Angel Mas told JNS, was to \u201cunderline for Spanish audiences the threat Israel faces and the scale of the Oct. 7 invasion.\u201d<\/p>\n
The campaign also criticized Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez\u2019s government for what ACOM described as singling out Israel and contributing to hostility toward Jews in Spain.<\/p>\n
JNS contributor Monica Vidal, a dual Spanish-U.S. citizen and investment professional, welcomed the campaign. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt uses a recent Spanish experience to make the events of Oct. 7 feel less distant and abstract,\u201d she said. \u201dIt asks Spaniards to consider the instinctive reaction they had when their own border felt threatened, and then imagine the vastly more extreme reality Israelis faced: armed terrorists entering communities to murder and kidnap civilians.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Oct. 7, 2026 \/ JNS) On the third anniversary of the Oct. 7 massacre, a prominent Spanish pro-Israel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-639577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639577","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=639577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}