Spain calls for an end to terrorist attacks against the United States in the Middle East

2024-02-03 20:08:49

The Spanish Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares, called this Saturday for the terrorist attacks against the United States in the Middle East to stop, after the Americans yesterday bombed targets in Iraq and Syria, supposedly linked to Iranian militias. in response to the death of three American soldiers in Jordan.

“The United States has suffered several terrorist attacks in recent days, some of which have caused the death of American citizens and that is the answer that the United States have given,” said Albares in statements to the press, upon his arrival at the informal meeting held today in Brussels by the foreign ministers of the European Union.

“We firmly condemn these terrorist attacks and what we want is for them to stop, we all have to contribute to ending terrorism in the Middle East,” continued the head of Spanish diplomacy.

According to the Pentagon, among the targets attacked are operations centers, intelligence centers, rockets and missiles, drone warehouses and facilities related logistics with the several attacks that pro-Iranian groups have committed in recent weeks against United States forces.

Albares, asked about Israel’s bombings in the Gazan city of Rafah, said that “the spiral of violence must end” and insisted on the need for a “permanent and immediate” ceasefire.

The minister said that 26,000 “innocent Palestinian civilians dead are enough and once the weapons keep quiet, that peace conference must take place to, once and for all, be able to recognize and establish a Palestinian State.”

In this sense, he pointed out that Spain will maintain funding for the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), which has launched an investigation following accusations by Israel that workers from the organization participated in the Hamas attack in the past. October 7.

Before the start of the meeting, Albares met with the vice president of the European Commission and head of Interinstitutional Relations, Maros Sefcovic, to discuss the agreement with Gibraltar after Brexit, as announced by the minister on his official account on the social network .