After meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called on the international community to stop selling weapons to Israel on Friday.
He stated to reporters, “I do believe that it is urgent that, in light of everything that is happening in the Middle East, the international community stop exporting weapons to the government of Israel.” He was referring to the events in the Middle East.
“This is an allure that I will make… to the whole global local area,” he said, it was significant “not to contribute somehow to the acceleration of viciousness and to the conflict and its extension in Gaza, the West Bank or, for this situation, to Lebanon to add that it.”
His remarks mirror those of the French president, who said nations ought to quit conveying weapons to battle in Gaza — provoking shock from Israel’s State leader Benjamin Netanyahu.
Among leaders of the European Union, Sanchez is one of the most outspoken critics of Israel’s attacks on Gaza. He asserted that the international community had to take action and referred to Israel’s military operations in Lebanon on Wednesday as an “invasion.”
Meanwhile, an Israeli attack in southern Lebanon that injured two United Nations peacekeepers was condemned by Ireland’s foreign minister, Micheal Martin, on Friday.
On Thursday, the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, UNIFIL, said Israeli fire on their base camp in the nation’s south harmed two Blue Caps.
While Martin, who is also deputy prime minister, went a step further and described the reports as “an extraordinary development, quite shocking,” prime minister Simon Harris stated that he was “deeply concerned” about them.
This indicates a significant uptick in IDF hostility toward UN posts and forces. Absolute inadmissibility. “What transpired in the preceding 48 hours was reckless and intimidating,” he stated.
347 of the 10,000 soldiers in the UNIFIL forces, which are responsible for keeping peace in the south of Lebanon, are from Ireland.
Martin urged the international community to “really put down a marker to Israel that this is unacceptable behavior” in an interview with reporters in southwest Ireland.
“The worldwide local area presently need to aggregately draw in with Israel and put squeeze on Israel to cease from this action, to stop it, and to guarantee that UN peacekeepers are not placed at risk,” he said.
Unifil stated over the weekend that it was concerned about Israeli troops being close to an Irish-manned outpost.
