Sam Jones in Madrid
Spain has scrapped a €6.6m (£5.7m) order for millions of bullets from an Israeli company after the junior partners in its coalition government denounced it as a “flagrant breach” of the alliance agreement that jeopardised the country’s sustained efforts to hold Israel accountable for its actions in Gaza.
The country’s socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has been one of the most outspoken critics of Israel’s conduct during the war in Gaza, questioning whether it is following international humanitarian law and calling the number of Palestinian deaths “truly unbearable”.
Sánchez’s rhetoric has been reinforced by Spain’s decision last year to formally recognise a Palestinian state, and by the government’s commitment to neither buy weapons from, nor sell weapons to, Israel since the outbreak of the conflict in Gaza that began with Hamas’s attacks on October 7 2023…
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