In an interview with the radio station Onda Cero, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares emphasized that the government only sees stability in the Middle East as possible with Palestine and Israel as states living side by side.

“Spain rejects any illegal annexation of Gaza or the West Bank,” Albares emphasized, commenting on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s perspective on extending or halting military attacks against Palestinians.

The diplomat warned that the solution also implies recognition of Israel by some Arab countries, although in reality the major step is to “establish the State of Palestine, including Gaza and the West Bank, under a ‘single national authority.'”

He also denounced the “extremely serious crimes” being committed in Israel’s offensive, in addition to the attempt to starve Palestinians, something that, in his view, the European Union (EU) “cannot allow.”

“If Europe does not firmly take up the banner of defending Palestine and human rights, the world is lost; no one will do it,” he declared.

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