Tel Aviv is drawing up plans to forcibly displace about two million Palestinians from their land with the support of the US government
Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares on 6 February rejected the suggestion of Israeli war chief Israel Katz that Madrid should accept Palestinians forcibly displaced from Gaza.
“First of all … no one should even be debating about where Palestinian Gazans should go, because that debate is closed. The land of Palestinian Gazans is Gaza. Gaza should be part of the future Palestinian state, just as Spain and the majority of the planet’s nations recognize,” Albares said in an interview with broadcaster RNE.
“What we are doing is introducing our humanitarian aid as much as possible to help the people after more than 45,000 innocent people fell victim to indiscriminate bombings,” Albares added, stressing that the world needs to help rebuild Gaza as a “first step” to getting the state of Palestine, which includes Gaza and the occupied West Bank, “on its feet.”
“The EU has made it clear that it is positioned in favor of a two-state solution,” he stressed.
Ireland's Foreign Ministry also criticized Katz's comments, calling them "unhelpful and a source of distraction.”
“The objective must be a massive scale-up of aid into Gaza, return of basic services, and a clear framework under which those displaced can return,” the ministry said. (more...)
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