MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Friday urged the worldwide neighborhood to cease promoting weapons to Israel as he condemned assaults by Israel’s armed forces in opposition to the United Nations’ peacekeeping power in Lebanon.
Israeli forces fired at an remark submit utilized by U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon on Friday, injuring two, a U.N. supply mentioned, the third day in a row peacekeepers have reported Israeli hearth at their positions as Israel wages battle on Hezbollah.
Not one of the Spanish troopers who have been a part of the mission have been hit, the Spanish Defence Ministry mentioned on Friday.
Spain has deployed 650 peacekeepers in Lebanon and a Spanish normal leads the mission.
“Let me at this point criticise and condemn the attacks that the Israeli armed forces are carrying out on the United Nations mission in Lebanon,” Sanchez, whose nation has been important of Israel within the current escalation of the battle within the Center East, mentioned after assembly Pope Francis on the Vatican.
Sanchez mentioned Spain stopped promoting weapons to Israel in October 2023 and urged the remainder of the world to do the identical to stop additional escalation within the area.
“I think it is urgent given what is happening in the Middle East that the international community stops exporting weapons to the Israeli government,” he mentioned.
