{"id":1721,"date":"2024-03-13T18:33:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T18:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2024-03-14T18:38:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T18:38:08","slug":"israels-attacks-on-gaza-have-to-stop-says-spains-foreign-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/israels-attacks-on-gaza-have-to-stop-says-spains-foreign-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel&#8217;s attacks on Gaza &#8216;have to stop,\u2019 says Spain\u2019s foreign minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Israel\u2019s attacks on the besieged Palestinian enclave of Gaza \u201chave to stop,\u201d the Spanish foreign minister said in Jordan on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Emphasising the tragedy of the more than 31,000 Palestinians killed in the attacks, including around 13,500 children, Jose Manuel Albares said that the international community cannot remain indifferent and should act to achieve an urgent ceasefire,\u00a0<em>Anadolu<\/em>\u00a0has reported.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">En mi audiencia con S.M. el rey Abdal\u00e1 II de Jordania hablamos de nuestras relaciones bilaterales y de la situaci\u00f3n en Palestina. Abordamos los esfuerzos conjuntos de Espa\u00f1a y Jordania para detener la tragedia en Gaza y alcanzar el camino de la paz. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qDhEMtrEms\">pic.twitter.com\/qDhEMtrEms<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jos\u00e9 Manuel Albares (@jmalbares) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jmalbares\/status\/1767947706691989670?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 13, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe deaths aren\u2019t figures, they are people of flesh and blood, and we cannot forget that,\u201d he said during a joint press conference alongside his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi. \u201cWe have agreed since the beginning about the need for a ceasefire that facilitates the entrance of humanitarian aid to stop the civilian population from dying in bombings or because of hunger.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Con mi hom\u00f3logo de Jordania, mi buen amigo <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AymanHsafadi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AymanHsafadi<\/a>, hemos abordado nuestras excelentes relaciones bilaterales y de cooperaci\u00f3n. Tambi\u00e9n la situaci\u00f3n en Gaza y la regi\u00f3n. Aunamos fuerzas por el alto el fuego inmediato, llegada de ayuda humanitaria, soluci\u00f3n de dos Estados. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OvfT9EwpD3\">pic.twitter.com\/OvfT9EwpD3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jos\u00e9 Manuel Albares (@jmalbares) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jmalbares\/status\/1767901960294760638?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 13, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Albares is on his third Middle East tour in recent months. Later today he is expected to visit Egypt. While in Jordan, he also emphasised the need for all parties, including Israel, to comply with international law and the International Court of Justice ruling. \u201cNo one should be above the law or at the margin of justice,\u201d he insisted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During his tour, the Spanish minister is drumming up support not only for a ceasefire, but also for an international peace conference.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe need to work politically so that once the urgent ceasefire happens, this is the last time we see this spiral of violence and horror,\u201d he explained. His vision, he added, is not to host another Oslo Accords where states discuss the \u201cparameters\u201d of peace. \u201cThis is so that once and for all we implement the two-state solution; so that a realistic Palestinian state exists in the eyes of the international community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Safadi agreed that establishing a sovereign Palestinian state \u201cis the only way to achieve security and stability in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Albares pointed out that Spain and Jordan are at a high point in bilateral relations. The countries also signed two new cooperation agreements related to political consultations and exchanging experiences between diplomatic institutes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also said that Spain will collaborate on a water de-salinisation project, and that part of Spain\u2019s increased funding to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) will go towards supporting the 2.5 million Palestinian refugees in Jordan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel\u2019s attacks on the besieged Palestinian enclave of Gaza \u201chave to stop,\u201d the Spanish foreign minister said in Jordan on Wednesday. Emphasising the tragedy of the more than 31,000 Palestinians killed in the attacks, including around 13,500 children, Jose Manuel Albares said that the international community cannot remain indifferent and should act to achieve an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-middle-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1723,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions\/1723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}