Ane Barcos-Aquí Europa/Eduardo González
The acting President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, joined yesterday in Brussels the voice of the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, for there to be a humanitarian ceasefire and stressed the importance of allowing “the urgent entry of aid humanitarian in Gaza in a systematic, permanent and proportionate way to the extraordinary needs of Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip right now.”
“Through the media we are seeing images of deaths, of Palestinian civilians, of suffering and humanitarian disaster,” declared Sánchez before participating in the Tripartite Social Summit in Brussels. According to Sánchez, it is “urgent and imperative” that there be a humanitarian ceasefire so that humanitarian aid can be allowed in.
During his statement before the media, the President of the Government also wanted to convey his “affection and support” to the Secretary General of the United Nations, the Portuguese Antonio Guterres. “I think what he is doing is raising the voice of a large majority of societies in the world that what they want is a humanitarian pause,” he noted.
Thus, he reiterated his desire “for the indiscriminate killing of people who are suffering to stop” and advocated finding a diplomatic path “that can lead us to a resolution of this serious crisis, which has a clear origin: the Hamas attack in Israeli soil and that deserves all the condemnation of Spanish society, of the Government of Spain and without a doubt of the international community.”
Antonio Guterres, during his speech before the UN Security Council this Tuesday, stated that “Hamas’ attacks do not come from nowhere” and that “Palestinians have been subject to 56 years of suffocating illegal occupation.” Given these statements, the Israeli Foreign Minister, Eli Cohen, charged against him and asked for his resignation and the Israeli ambassador to the UN accused Guterres of having lost all morality and impartiality, in addition to tolerating terrorism.
After the controversy created, António Guterres declared yesterday that he was “astonished by the distortions” that “some” had made with his words and recalled that in his statements on Tuesday he had “unequivocally condemned the acts of terror by Hamas in Israel, horrible and unprecedented” and that “nothing can justify the deliberate murder, the kidnapping of civilians or the launching of rockets against civilian targets.” He also stated, without retracting his words from Tuesday, that “the grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify Hamas’s atrocious attacks.” The UK Government has asked Guterres to “retract” his words.
For her part, the leader of Sumar and acting vice president of the Government, Yolanda Díaz, also conveyed her support to António Guterres and the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) and “many other agencies and people who work for peace.” ”. “Europe and the international community must focus on an immediate ceasefire, the release of hostages and the end of the indiscriminate siege, occupation and apartheid,” she declared through the social network X.
