Prohens avoids condemning the Gaza genocide

PalmMore and more Western institutions and organizations—including UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese—are defining Israel's attacks on the population of Gaza as genocide.Last Monday, Spanish President Pedro Sánchez, already used this term, after recalling the figures of63,000 deaths, 159,000 injured, 250,000 people at risk of malnutritionand nearly two million displaced. But Prime Minister Marga Prohens once again avoided condemning him this Tuesday. During the control session in Parliament, she limited herself to "condemning any murder of anyone, regardless of who it comes from," and criticized the fact that "Hamas, a terrorist group, congratulates the Sánchez government."

In parallel, the PP joined forces with Vox by voting against two points of a non-legislative motion presented by the Socialist Party. One of them urged Parliament to express "its solidarity with the Palestinian civilian population," and the other called on the government to strengthen "humanitarian aid lines" in this territory. On the other hand, she voted in favor of expressing "concern and institutional rejection of any plan that involves the forced displacement or deportation of the Palestinian population from the Gaza Strip." He also supported the point urging "the international community to intensify diplomatic efforts to achieve an immediate and permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip." The Left voted in favor of all points of the proposal.