Pro-Palestinian demonstration Díaz and Belarra compete for the Palestinian cause: the vice president speaks of "war crimes" and Belarra accuses Sánchez of not being "up to the task"

The second vice president of the acting Government and leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, asked this Sunday that Israel clarify its legal responsibilities for the “war crimes” it is committing in Gaza and has demanded an immediate ceasefire.

Yolanda Díaz, who participated in Madrid in a demonstration called by Palestinian organizations, groups and NGOs against Israel’s “genocide” in Palestine, considered that the acting president of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, “defends the same thing as others.” “120 countries of the United Nations, we all call for a ceasefire.”

“We are talking about war crimes and I have been asking for days to clear up legal responsibilities. The history of Gaza has been written,” warned the vice president, who has asked that “double standards” stop existing because international legality is the same for everyone. and “today, Israel is committing war crimes.

The acting Minister of Social Rights and Secretary General of Podemos, Ione Belarra, who also attended the demonstration, believes that the European leaders, including the Spanish one, “are not up to the task of the seriousness of the circumstances” and has insisted that Europe has to act now because “it is going to pay dearly for this hypocrisy of proclaiming human rights throughout the world and, when it is necessary to show its face, doing nothing”.

Belarra, who has called for diplomatic relations to be broken with Israel and for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be brought before the International Criminal Court to be tried “for what he is, a war criminal,” has also said that the Spanish foreign policy must be agreed between the Government’s partners since now, he said, “the PSOE is carrying out the unilateral position that they only consider.”

The spokesperson for Más Madrid in the capital’s City Council, Rita Maestre, also present at the mobilization, has insisted that in Gaza “a genocide announced for a long time” is being confirmed before the complicit gaze of many people and countries and before which society cannot remain silent.

The spokesperson for Más Madrid in the regional Assembly, Mónica García, has also spoken of “programmed genocide”, who has considered Europe’s response insufficient to what is happening in Gaza where, she said, war crimes are being committed. And she has assured that she misses the Spanish right in demonstrations like this, “which is never on the good side of history.”