The acting President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, assured this Saturday that the solution to the conflict between Israel and Hamas involves also recognizing Palestine as a State, so that “they can coexist in peace and security”, as the United Nations says. United Nations or the Spanish Cortes Generales, which have approved resolutions along these lines.
During a PSOE rally in Mérida, Sánchez lamented that the conflict is causing “so much suffering, anxiety and instability” both in the region and throughout the world. First, he endorsed Israel’s “right” to “defend itself” against Hamas’ bloody attack. Of course, he specified that it has to be “within International Humanitarian Law”, which “does not endorse” the evacuation ultimatum to the Gaza Strip given by the Israeli authorities.
Sánchez, in this sense, has condemned “strongly and without any ambiguity” the “terrorist attack” by Hamas, while demanding the “urgent” release of the “Israeli hostages and captives” held by the Islamist movement, one week after the attack.
After emphasizing that Spain is a “peace-loving” country, he expressed that Israel “of course has the right to defend itself, but always within International Humanitarian Law, which does not materially endorse the evacuation of Palestinians from Gaza, as it says. United Nations”.
Since 2014
PSOE sources have recalled after Sánchez’s intervention that the Congress of Deputies approved in November 2014, with the support of all groups, a non-legal proposal that urges the Government to recognize Palestine as a State.
This text went ahead with 319 votes in favor, two abstentions and one vote against, and the socialists highlight that it was the result of a “long negotiation” in which the PP “agreed” to change the beginning of the text, which went from “urge the Government to promote the recognition of Palestine as a State” to “urge the Government to recognize Palestine as a State”.
The same sources indicate that the PSOE accepted the rest of the ‘popular’ transactional amendment that urged the Government, then of Mariano Rajoy, to “seek in any action in this sense a coordinated action in concert with the international community, and in concretely with the European Union, taking full account of the legitimate concerns, interest and aspirations of the State of Israel.
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