{"id":483661,"date":"2025-10-08T18:57:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T18:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/483661\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T18:57:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T18:57:14","slug":"spanish-mps-back-move-to-enshrine-in-law-arms-embargo-on-israel-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/483661\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish MPs back move to enshrine in law arms embargo on Israel | Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spain\u2019s parliament has voted to enshrine in law an arms embargo on Israel that the prime minister, Pedro S\u00e1nchez<\/a>, introduced to end \u201cthe genocide in Gaza\u201d.<\/p>\n

Parliament backed by 178 votes to 169 the decree announced in September<\/a> by S\u00e1nchez, one of the strongest critics of Israel\u2019s devastating two-year-old war in the Palestinian territory.<\/p>\n

The support of the far-left party Podemos, which has four MPs, helped swing the vote the leftist minority coalition\u2019s way after speculation about their lawmakers\u2019 position. Podemos had previously criticised the decree, arguing it did not go far enough.<\/p>\n

The government said it had already banned buying weapons from or selling them to Israel<\/a> since the start of the war, which was sparked by the unprecedented Hamas attack on Israeli soil on 7 October 2023.<\/p>\n

But S\u00e1nchez announced last month a decree to \u201cconsolidate in law\u201d the embargo as part of a series of measures against Israel\u2019s offensive.<\/p>\n

\u201cIsrael\u2019s response to the terrible attacks committed by terrorist group Hamas has ended up becoming an indiscriminate attack against the Palestinian population that the majority of experts have called genocide,\u201d said the preamble of the law.<\/p>\n

It bans all exports of defence equipment, products or technology to Israel and imports of such goods from the country.<\/p>\n

The decree also outlaws the transit of aviation fuel with potential military use and bans the advertising of products \u201ccoming from illegal colonies in Gaza<\/a> and the West Bank\u201d.<\/p>\n

The text allows the government to make exceptions for dual-use defence equipment \u201cif the application of the ban harmed general national interests\u201d.<\/p>\n

September\u2019s announcement triggered furious condemnation from Israel, which had already withdrawn its ambassador to Madrid in 2024 after Spain recognised a Palestinian state<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The vote had been scheduled for Tuesday but Spanish media said it was held a day later to avoid coinciding with the two-year anniversary<\/a> of the Hamas attack.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s embassy in Spain<\/a> had criticised the original plan, calling it \u201ca cynical and reprehensible decision\u201d in a letter released on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spain\u2019s parliament has voted to enshrine in law an arms embargo on Israel that the prime minister, Pedro…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-483661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115340079602957005","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}