Pedro Sánchez insists that “it is time to mobilize all efforts to end the spiral of violence and return to a diplomatic and political solution” in relation to the conflict between Israel and Hamas. A demand to the entire international community that the Spanish president applies in person, with an intense agenda of contacts with the main political actors in the region and with their representatives in Spain.
After his recent talks and meetings with the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmud Abbas, the acting head of the Spanish Executive received yesterday afternoon in Moncloa l the Israeli ambassador in Madrid, Rodica Radian-Gordon, and also the head of the Palestinian diplomatic mission, Husni M.A. Abdelwahed.
Once the recent diplomatic incident suffered between the two countries over the positions that the Hebrew State attributed to the ministers of Podem was concluded, Sánchez conveyed to the ambassador of Israel his solidarity with the Israeli people after the terrorist attacks of Hamas of October 7. At the same time, Sánchez defended before Radian-Gordon the need to “avoid a humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza, so that humanitarian aid reaches the Palestinian civilian population.
He also conveyed his solidarity to the Palestinian ambassador “for the dramatic situation in Gaza”. “A political solution to the conflict is necessary and to offer the Palestinian people a credible peace horizon, based on the urgent materialization of the solution of the two states, Palestine and Israel, that coexist in peace and security”, he defended.
Sánchez continued to focus his agenda on this conflict yesterday, since in the morning he also held two meetings with the representatives of the Israeli and Islamic community in Spain. He thus held a meeting with the president of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Spain, Isaac Benzaquen. And also with the secretary of the Islamic Commission in Spain, Mohamed Ajana, and the organization’s delegate in Madrid, Mostafa Abdeslam.
He thanked the two communities for their “willingness to continue working for peace and coexistence”. “Ours is an open and tolerant society, and this makes us stronger”, he told them.
Sánchez remains stubborn in promoting the path of dialogue between Israel and Palestine and wants to take advantage of his current presidency of the Council of the EU so that Spain can be the platform to achieve this, in line with the Madrid conference of 1991 – the forerunner of the agreements of Oslo in 1993 – and the Barcelona process of 1995, the seed of the Union for the Mediterranean, created in 2008 and which on November 27 celebrates its annual meeting in the Catalan capital.