State Department Raises Travel Warning For Part Of Spain As Migrant Surge Sparks Military Deployment<\/a><\/p>\n Law enforcement personnel stand while smoke and flames rise as Ceuta residents destroy a migrant camp by the beach, in Ceuta, Spain, August 27, 2026, in this screen grab taken from a handout video.<\/p>\n S\u00e1nchez on Monday directly linked the mass crossing to what he described as a foreign-backed disinformation campaign.<\/p>\n Read On The Fox News App<\/a><\/p>\n Spanish authorities have said misleading videos and posts circulating on Instagram, TikTok and other social-media platforms falsely suggested that migrants who reached Ceuta by sea would be permitted to remain in Spain.<\/p>\n Ceuta Migrant Surge Exposes Spain-morocco Tensions As Islamist Groups Reportedly Seek To Exploit Border Crisis<\/a><\/p>\n Law enforcement personnel watch while protesters hold Spanish flags, as Ceuta residents destroy a migrant camp by the beach, in Ceuta, Spain, August 27, 2026, in this screen grab taken from a handout video.<\/p>\n S\u00e1nchez told radio station SER that research by the European Union’s diplomatic service, the European External Action Service, indicated Russian and Israeli networks had participated in spreading the disinformation alongside far-right networks, Reuters reported Aug. 31.<\/p>\n He argued that Russia and Israel had seized on the crisis to attack Madrid because of disagreements with his government over the wars in Ukraine and Gaza<\/a>.<\/p>\n However, S\u00e1nchez provided no further details about the evidence supporting the accusation, according to the reports.<\/p>\n Both governments rejected his claims.<\/p>\n Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar accused S\u00e1nchez of “lying shamelessly” and said in a post on X that the Spanish leader was attempting to divert attention from domestic policy failures.<\/p>\n Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov separately rejected Spain’s accusation that Russia was connected to the Ceuta migration crisis.<\/p>\n S\u00e1nchez also rejected allegations that Morocco’s government deliberately facilitated the border surge, telling SER, “When people talk and speculate about the participation of Moroccan authorities, I deny this outright,” according to Reuters. Spanish opposition parties and some human-rights organizations have accused Rabat of allowing the crossings, an allegation Morocco denies.<\/p>\n Spanish Journalist Says Ceuta Residents Believe Government Isn’t Doing Enough To Prevent Another Migrant Rush<\/a><\/p>\n Workers carry the body of a migrant who died while trying to cross into Ceuta at the city’s Muslim cemetery in Ceuta, Spain, August 21, 2026.<\/p>\n The disinformation surrounding the Ceuta crossing had been building well before S\u00e1nchez publicly accused Russian and Israeli-linked networks. Fox News Digital reported Aug. 4 that an open-source investigation by Golden Owl Intelligence traced weeks of activity across TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp that circulated misleading interpretations of Spanish immigration law, along with information about routes, meeting points and recommended crossing times.<\/p>\n The campaign intensified after Spain’s Supreme Court issued a July 8 ruling restricting the immediate return of migrants intercepted at sea near Ceuta<\/a> and Melilla. Simplified accounts of the ruling, combined with confusion over Spain’s separate plan to regularize hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants, were circulated online as evidence that migrants reaching Spanish territory would be allowed to stay.<\/p>\n Spain’s Migrant Surge Reignites Debate Over Europe’s Islamist Terror Threat<\/a><\/p>\n Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has called the U.S. conflict with Iran “reckless” and “unjust.”<\/p>\n Zineb Riboua, a research fellow at the Hudson Institute, said at the time that Islamist movements were also seeking to exploit the crisis politically. Riboua argued that Islamist voices in Morocco and Spain were amplifying the unrest and portraying Europe as an attractive destination while using Morocco’s ties with Israel and the U.S. to attack the Moroccan government. In a July 31 analysis, Riboua wrote that Islamist activists had spent years encouraging young Moroccans to believe their country offered them little future and depicting Europe as a place where prosperity and opportunity were easily available.<\/p>\n The crisis has also spread beyond Spain. Italy on Monday extended for another 15 days its suspension of Schengen free-movement arrangements with Spain, a step first imposed July 31 in response to the mass influx into Ceuta.<\/p>\n![\"Law](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/fox_news_text_979\/2ba149fe45ea6a4b29a9277e19e10456.jpg\"\/)
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