The Campaign to End Arms Trade with Israel has obtained the support of numerous national and regional unions throughout Spain – from the Canary Islands, Galicia, Andalusia and Valencia – to ask the Spanish Government to implement a ship inspection protocol. that transit through Spain bound for Israel and a comprehensive arms embargo on the country.
The unions have signed a letter addressed to the Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Óscar Puente, in which they point out their rejection of the fact that “various Spanish ports have served as transit spaces to feed the genocide of the Palestinian people”, mentioning the published information in recent days, like this investigation by elDiario.es.
“Imposing an arms embargo on Israel is a legal and moral obligation. We cannot, we do not want to continue looking the other way, when thousands of people on the other side of the Mediterranean are being murdered with weapons that pass before our eyes. A genocide in Palestine, an invasion in Lebanon,” the unions say in the letter. “More than 43,000 people killed in the last year, thousands of people displaced from their homes again and again, without water, without food, without electricity and without any type of medical assistance, because Israel is destroying all livelihoods in the face of the complicit gaze of the international community,” they add in the letter.
“As workers we know that solidarity between those who fight for rights and freedom is essential to put an end to those who oppress,” they continue. For this reason, they demand that the Government “impose a complete and immediate arms embargo on Israel and develop a systematic inspection protocol for all ships that transit through our territory bound for Israel.”
The signatories at the state level are CCOO and CGT, in addition to numerous regional unions from port areas throughout the country, such as Intersindical Valenciana, Solidaritat Obrera Barcelona, UGT de Catalunya, Frente Sindical Obrero de Canarias, SAT Sindicato Andaluz de Trabajadores, etc. .
In addition to the unions, another group has joined the request for an arms embargo on Israel, as well as the breaking of diplomatic, commercial and military relations, and guarantees for Palestinian asylum seekers in Spain, among other things. “The recently established Jurists for Palestine platform is made up of a large group of lawyers, judges, prosecutors and academics who have come together to demand that the Spanish Government strictly comply with its obligations in international law in the face of serious human rights violations in Palestine,” the group says in a statement.
“We have confirmed that the traditional judicial channels have not been effective in stopping the connivance of the Spanish State in the face of crimes committed against the Palestinian people, which has led this group to come together to exert pressure, thus joining the response of civil society organized,” explains the platform.
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