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EU may become complicit in ‘genocide’ – Spanish official

RT | October 30, 2023

Spanish Social Rights Minister Ione Belarra has urged European leaders to take immediate action against Israel, including severing diplomatic ties and imposing economic sanctions, amid the intensified bombing and expanded ground operations against Hamas militants in the besieged Palestinian enclave.

She also called for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be prosecuted for the alleged war crimes committed against civilians in Gaza.

“After this hellish night in Gaza, I have a very simple but very important message for European leaders. Do not make us complicit in genocide. Act. Not in our name,” Belarra said in a passionate video message on X on Saturday.

More than 8,000 Palestinians, including 3,342 children, have been killed in Gaza since Israel’s air campaign began, according to the latest figures from the Gaza Health Ministry. The unprecedented Hamas raid into Israel, as well as hundreds of rocket strikes on Israeli territory earlier this month, left around 1,400 people dead, while 230 Israelis and foreigners were taken hostage, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

Addressing the severity of the current situation in Gaza and Israel’s disproportionate retaliation, the minister highlighted the termination of internet and telephone services in the strip, claiming that the move “has a very clear objective” of guaranteeing that “Israel commits crimes against humanity without consequences.”

“Our inaction is turning us into accomplices,” the minister stressed, arguing that “Israel believes that its international alliances guarantee its impunity.”

“We have to act now, tomorrow will be too late,” she continued, voicing her message to the EU leaders: “Cut diplomatic relations with the State of Israel. Carry out exemplary economic sanctions against those responsible for this genocide. And without a doubt, let’s take Netanyahu before the International Criminal Court, so that he can be tried for what he is, a war criminal.”

She also appealed to EU citizens to take to the streets and raise their voice so that “this genocide” comes to an end.

The IDF escalated air and ground attack on Gaza on Friday, causing a near-total communication blackout. Connectivity was partially restored over the weekend, but the Israeli blockade of Gaza continues; Netanyahu announced the “second stage” of the war against Hamas on Saturday.

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  1. While US propaganda and the suckups in Congress fall in line behind AIPAC, many of the children killed in Gaza are below the age of 5! Videos of orphaned Palestinian children and those killed by the indiscriminate bombing campaign by Israel should be on TV’s nightly news channels. Instead we get just the opposite. Thousands of Palestinians are unaccounted for. Most of them are suspected of being buried beneath the rubble! Yet all we get from CNN and FOX is “Israel has a right to defend itself”.

    Truth has a way of finding its way to the public even under the fog of war. But while Israel’s brutality has escaped scrutiny in western press reports, they have not escaped Youtube live video postings. They tell a different story. Hamas may be blamed for starting the al Aqsa Storm, but Israel is not innocent by any means. It has committed unfathomable atrocities against its own people as well as against Hamas and Palestinians, way beyond the bounds of self defense.

    Youtube videos show Israeli first responders finding charred bodies with bound feet and hands in the settlements Hamas raided. They indicate the settlers were being held hostage by Hamas fighters when they were attacked by Israeli tanks and helicopter gun ships, killing Israeli hostages and Hamas fighters alike. But the Israeli government and the lap dog mass media propaganda machine would have us believe that Hamas invaders poured gasoline on their captives and burned them alive! This lie is used by Israel to denigrate Palestinians as “animals”. The beheading of children by Hamas was another lie spread by Israel reporters.

    Another Youtube video of the Hamas attack on the techno concert tells a different story than what Israel and their media lap dogs have reported. Interviews of Israeli attack helicopter pilots have confirmed that many of the dead concert goers may have been killed by Israeli gunfire by IDF forces who were responding to Hamas’s breach of the Gaza’s gates. There are interviews with wounded Israeli concert goers who confirmed they were caught in a cross fire by Israeli forces and Hamas fighters as they were trying to flee the area. One eyewitness who was wounded said she was hit by gunfire by IDF soldiers.

    Because of the censoring and black journalism in America, a majority of Americans have no clue that the conflict between Israel and Hamas could lead to WWIII. Instead they are being bull rushed into supporting what may soon develop into a regional war involving Iran, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Yemen and even Russia! Russia is using a Syrian airfield that if attacked by Israel could quickly lead to WWIII. Israel has already bombed Syria’s Aleppo airport twice, rendering it inoperative. Syria and Russia are therefore jointly using the airport in Khmeimim. If Israel or the US attacks this air base, thermonuclear warfare will commence that will result in the extinction of all human life on our planet.

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