{"id":78551,"date":"2026-08-31T18:50:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T18:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/78551\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T18:50:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T18:50:32","slug":"spain-pm-blames-russia-israel-for-ceuta-migrant-crisis-disinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/78551\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain PM blames Russia, Israel for Ceuta migrant crisis\u2019 disinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Monday there were signs Russia<\/a> and Israel<\/a> had spread the disinformation over Spain<\/a>\u2019s migration policy that triggered last month\u2019s rush of migrants into Ceuta, but no evidence of Moroccan involvement.Over 72,000 migrants irregularly crossed \u200cfrom Morocco<\/a> into the tiny Spanish territory between July 30 and 31 in an unprecedented surge at one of the European Union<\/a>\u2019s only two land borders with Africa, prompting alarm across the bloc. At least 100 people died in the attempt, according to Ceuta\u2019s local authorities.<\/p>\n

Spanish opposition parties and some human rights groups have accused Rabat of deliberately allowing the mass crossing, an accusation Morocco has denied.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen people talk and speculate about the participation of Moroccan authorities, \u2060I deny this outright,\u201d Sanchez told radio station SER.<\/p>\n

Videos on Instagram, TikTok and other social media spread misleading claims that migrants \u200creaching Ceuta by sea could remain in Spain, encouraging thousands to attempt the crossing, Spanish authorities have said.<\/p>\n

\"AA migrant overlooks a shelter set up on August 21 after police cleared a makeshift beach camp in Spain\u2019s North African enclave of Ceuta following a mass crossing from Morocco. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n

Sanchez said research by the EU\u2019s diplomatic service EEAS had indicated that Russian and Israeli \u200cnetworks had been behind the spread of disinformation in conjunction with far-right networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Monday there were signs Russia and Israel had spread the disinformation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6211,3299,333,398,606,32,82,2264,205,24377,3018,17,2879],"class_list":["post-78551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-africa","tag-ceuta","tag-european-union","tag-gaza","tag-gideon-saar","tag-israel","tag-madrid","tag-morocco","tag-pedro-sanchez","tag-rabat","tag-russia","tag-spain","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}