Eduardo González
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, held a meeting on Monday with Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International (AI), with whom he discussed, among other issues, the organization’s recent report that concludes that Israel is “committing genocide against the Palestinian population of Gaza.”
According to Moncloa in a press release, Sánchez and Callamard agreed on the need to defend international law in the face of open conflicts in the region, especially in Gaza, and, in this regard, both commented on the recent and extensive report published by Amnesty International.
In the report, entitled “It is as if we were subhuman beings,” Amnesty International states, “after carrying out an investigation,” that “it has found sufficient elements to reach the conclusion that Israel has committed and continues to commit genocide against the Palestinian population of the occupied Gaza Strip.” According to AI, “during the military offensive it launched after the deadly Hamas-led attacks in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, Israel has been shamelessly, continuously and with absolute impunity plunging the Palestinian population of Gaza into a hell of destruction.”
During the meeting with Callamard, Sánchez reaffirmed Spain’s “commitment to defending international legality and human rights anywhere in the world” and highlighted “all the measures that the Government has defended and promoted both abroad, through multilateral institutions, and at the national level,” added Moncloa.
Agnès Callamard, who is in Spain as part of her tour of different countries to address the state of human rights in the Middle East, will be received on Tuesday by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares.
