Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez urges the international community to stop selling weapons to Israel as he condemns IDF fire on UNIFIL posts in southern Lebanon.
The IDF said earlier in the day that it was investigating reports of injuries to two peacekeepers after a UN source said Israeli forces had fired at an observation post. The report came after two peacekeepers were injured in a similar incident a day prior.
Spain has deployed 650 peacekeepers in Lebanon and a Spanish general leads the UN mission.
“Let me at this point criticize and condemn the attacks that the Israeli armed forces are carrying out on the United Nations mission in Lebanon,” Sanchez says after meeting Pope Francis at the Vatican.
Sanchez, who has been critical of Israel throughout its war with Hamas in Gaza, says Spain stopped selling weapons to Israel in October 2023 and urges the rest of the world to do the same, claiming it will prevent further escalation in the region.
“I think it is urgent given what is happening in the Middle East that the international community stops exporting weapons to the Israeli government,” he says.
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