CÓRDOBA, Oct. 21 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The secretary of Podemos and acting minister of Social Rights and Agenda 2030, Ione Belarra, has claimed this Saturday that the international summit promoted in the face of the escalation of the war between Israel and Hamas serves to “begin to stop the genocide against the Palestinian people” with “international pressure” on the Government of Benjamin Netanyahu, followed by “economic sanctions” if the Israeli executive does not give in.
Bellarra visited Córdoba this Saturday to participate in a regional meeting with Andalusian militants together with the regional coordinator of Podemos Andalucía and deputy, Martina Velarde; framework in which he has indicated the international summit scheduled in Cairo (Egypt) to examine the escalation of the conflict after the attack perpetrated on October 7 by militants of the Palestinian group Hamas in Israel, which for its part has responded by intensely bombing Gaza.
As a consequence, Israel counts some 1,400 dead and the Palestinian authorities count more than 4,000 Palestinian deaths, the majority civilians in both cases, highlighting the more than 500 people who died when the Al Ahli hospital was attacked, in the north of the Gaza Strip. Gaza, an extreme denounced by the Palestinian authorities while Israel says on its side that the explosion was caused by a failed Islamic Jihas missile.
In this framework, Belarra has warned that the world leaders meeting in Cairo, including the acting Spanish president, the socialist Pedro Sánchez, have it in their power to “begin to stop the genocide against the Palestinian people by Israel”; claiming that the aforementioned summit must have “operational” status, so that the great powers “put pressure on Israel and ensure that the bombings of the Palestinian civilian population end,” as well as that “the supply cuts” of water or electricity end,” that are going to cause thousands of deaths in an agonizing way”.
If Israel does not react to this “international pressure”, Belarra has opted for “economic sanctions” so that said state “cannot move a single euro or dollar from its accounts abroad”, also demanding “an arms embargo” and the suspension of the export of military material to that country, which, according to what it has warned, “has been carrying out decades of policy of illegal occupation and apartheid” against the Palestinian population.
Thus, Belarra has warned that after the Hamas terrorist attack, Israel is deploying a whole “collective punishment” against the Palestinian population, which represents a “breach of international humanitarian law.”
