Eduardo González
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has assured in a statement that, since October 7, 2023, “no arms sales operations to Israel” have been authorized in Spain.
“Given the information that appeared in some media, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation reports that since October 7, 2023, no arms sales operations to Israel have been authorized,” the brief statement states. of the Department directed by José Manuel Albares.
On January 23, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, assured Cadena SER that, “since October 7, 2023, there has been no arms sale operation to Israel.”
However, data from DataComex, the foreign trade portal of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, indicates that, since October 7, the day of the attacks by Hamas and Israel that provoked the current offensive of the Government of Benjamin Netanyahu in Gaza, Spain has exported weapons to Israel worth 987,000 euros, specifically “bombs, grenades, torpedoes, mines, missiles, cartridges and other ammunition and projectiles, and their parts, including slugs, pellets and cartridge wads.”
As a result of this information, collected by ‘eldiario.es’, Sumar’s spokesperson and Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, has demanded that the Foreign Ministry cancel “immediately” any license to sell weapons to Israel and that a total embargo on these exports. “Not a single bullet, not a single Spanish pistol, can go to Israel under the current circumstances,” Urtasun declared at a press conference this Monday.
For his part, the Minister of Social Rights, Consumption and Agenda 2030, Pablo Bustinduy (also from Sumar), has described the sale of Israeli weapons as “unacceptable and contrary to the Government’s position.” “To put an end to the genocide, we insist that a formal embargo must be decreed and any military, economic and commercial ties with those responsible must be broken. This is how we have officially claimed it again,” he published on social networks.
