The Diplomat
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Jordan, Ayman Safadi, called his Spanish counterpart, José Manuel Albares, on Tuesday night to ask Spain for a “firm position” after the Israeli attack on Jabalia, in the north of the Gaza Strip. , which left “hundreds” of victims according to information from the Gazan authorities.
Ayman Safadi, whose country decided yesterday to withdraw its ambassador to Israel until the offensive in Gaza ceases, wrote on his X social network account, after reporting his conversation with Albares: “Israel is violating international law, crossing all the legal, ethical and humanitarian lines. “This cannot stand.”
The Spanish minister, for his part, said, on the same social network, that he was “horrified” by the civilian victims of the Israeli bombing of Jabalia. And he insisted that international humanitarian law “must always be respected.” “We call for the unconditional release of hostages and a humanitarian truce to avoid more innocent victims. We want peace and security for everyone in the Middle East,” he added.
For his part, the spokesperson for the US State Department, Matthew Miller, reported in a statement that the director general of Foreign Policy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Spain, Guillermo Ardizone, and the acting US Undersecretary of State, Victoria Nuland, They had met in Washington and agreed that they needed to continue working with regional leaders to prevent the spread of the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
And yesterday afternoon, it was learned that the anesthetist Raúl Incertis, from the NGO Doctors Without Borders, was the first Spaniard to manage to leave the Gaza Strip, once the Rafah crossing was opened to evacuate the sick and about 500 foreigners or people with dual nationality. He was part of a group of 22 members of that NGO who had moved to the south of the strip to be able to leave through Rafah, as sources from humanitarian organizations in the area explained to Efe.
For her part, the acting Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, yesterday praised the “essential” work of “intermediation” between Israel and Lebanon, as well as “protection of the civilian population”, which the Spanish military integrated into the Mission of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, for its acronym in English. Robles made these statements after visiting the Operations Command, located at the Retamares Base (Madrid), where she held a videoconference with Spanish General Aroldo Lázaro Sáenz, head of UNIFIL.
