Sumar and Podemos will defend together this Tuesday in the Plenary of Congress their bill to shield the embargo on the purchase and sale of military equipment with Israel. Both formations claim the PSOE to support the admission of the initiative as a moral obligation to the “genocide” suffered by the Palestinian people.
Its debate in the Lower House takes place just when the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has affirmed that he aspires to the total takeover of Gaza while this weekend the bombings in Gaza have intensified.
The text proposes to prohibit any resource that serves to strengthen the Hebrew army in its offensive against the Palestinian people, even if it is riot control material or military fuel, through a reform of the current regulations on the control of foreign trade in defense and dual-use material.
In addition, it incorporates a specific protocol for the Government to deploy the inspection of the cargo of ships and aircraft passing through Spain bound for Israel and to enable the seizure of any military material they may be carrying.
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Note that this does not mean for Spain to decide on the proposed law directly. The proposed law has two interesting aspects that go beyond just not trading weapons.
The first is banning dual use goods including military fuels. The second is also denying access for any ships or plane carrying weapons or dual use goods to Israel. While the Strait of Gibraltar is excluded from nations exercising their sovereign sea rights as far as i understand, the length of the Spanish coast both in the Mediterranean and Atlantic will exclude such ships from access to many ports, driving their operations costs.