Spain Will Not Sell Weapons To Israel During Attacks On Gaza

Rafah City, Gaza/UN News/Ziad Taleb

JAKARTA - Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said his country would not sell weapons to Israel "during the current situation it is still ongoing".

As reported by ANTARA from Anadolu, Saturday, February 24, Albares, at a press conference at the UN head office in New York, said no new arms sales license was granted to Israel after October 7.

In addition, Albares said Spain would provide USD 3.7 million (approximately IDR 57.7 billion) to finance the United Nations Aid and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).

He also said Spain was trying to increase this number in the near future.

Israel has been attacking the Gaza Strip since the cross-border attack by the Palestinian Hamas group on October 7. The Israeli war that occurred later killed more than 29,500 people and caused mass destruction and shortages of basic necessities.

Israel's attack on Gaza has left 85 percent of the region's population displaced amid food shortages, clean water, and medicines, while 60 percent of infrastructure in the region is damaged or destroyed, according to the United Nations.