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Spanish PM says Israel wants to inflict ‘same destruction’ on Lebanon as it did on Gaza
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Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez arrives for the Coalition of the Willing meeting in Paris, France, at the Elysee Palace on January 6, 2026. (Yoan VALAT / POOL / AFP)
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez tells lawmakers that his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu “seeks to inflict the same level of damage and destruction” on Lebanon as Israeli forces wrought in Gaza following the murderous Hamas-led onslaught of October 7, 2023.
Appearing before the lower house to explain his government’s stance against the US-Israeli war on Iran, Sanchez adds that Iran’s new supreme leader was more hardline than his predecessor and father Ali Khamenei, who was killed at the start of the war on February 28.
“Mojtaba Khamenei is an equally dictatorial and even more bloodthirsty tyrant than his father,” Sanchez says.
Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
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