<h6><strong>Eduardo González</strong></h6> <h4><strong>Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares announced this Monday in New York that Spain will send 12,000 kilos of food to the Gaza Strip to alleviate the "induced famine" that is causing the deaths, "every day," of "human beings due to the lack of access to food that is piling up at the borders."</strong></h4> "Today I am going to denounce the induced famine in Gaza," Albares declared upon his arrival in New York to participate in the UN High-Level International Conference for the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution. "We are talking about human beings dying every day due to the lack of access to food that is piling up at the borders of Gaza. 100,000 children, 40,000 of them babies, are at risk of dying in the coming days," he denounced. " For this reason," he announced, "Spain, through the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation, will send an initial shipment of 12,000 kilos of food." "This is approximately 5,500 food rations in addition to the trucks with Spanish humanitarian aid already waiting at the border," he specified. "We need massive humanitarian aid, and starting August 1, that Spanish aid will certainly be very present," he added. This Monday, during the press conference to present the results of the last political year, held at the La Moncloa complex, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced that "the famine in Gaza is a disgrace for all humanity, and stopping it is a moral, political, and humanitarian imperative." Therefore, he announced that the government is preparing "a shipment of thousands of kilos of food to the Strip that, if circumstances do not change, will arrive this Friday from Jordanian territory using parachutes and A400 aircraft from our Armed Forces." Meanwhile, Albares met this Monday in New York with Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa, assuring him that "Spain will continue to support the State of Palestine and its people" and will continue "to join forces to stop the war in Gaza and end the famine." He also met with his French counterpart, Jean-Noël Barrot, to whom he stated that "France's announcement that it will recognize the State of Palestine, joining other European countries like Spain, is good news for peace in the region."
