The Palestinian people need more help from the European Union, not less. This statement was made by Spanish Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Jose Manuel Albarez in a radio interview. Cadena SER.
According to him, this means that the EU will need to raise large amounts of humanitarian aid for the Palestinians. However, he emphasized that Hamas, the radical Islamist movement that carried out an unprecedented attack on Israel last weekend, should not be confused with the entire Palestinian people, who have great needs.
At a meeting of EU foreign ministers on 10 October, Albarez plans to insist on continuing to provide aid to Palestine because he believes refusing to do so would be “counterproductive”. According to the minister, Palestinians also fear Hamas’ attacks and see them as atrocities.
The minister also added that although the issue of evacuation of Spanish citizens was not discussed, the government is currently organizing an operation to send back 100 Spaniards who are in Israel for touristic or commercial reasons by military plane.
7 October Hamas forces launched Several thousand rockets were fired at Israel and the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood was announced. Against this background, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said on October 7 entry state of emergency in the country.
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu announcedthat the country is at war. The IDF’s operation against Hamas was called “Iron Swords”.
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