Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez says Israel is ‘exterminating a defenceless people’

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Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez says Israel is ‘exterminating a defenceless people’

Spain announces raft of measures designed to increase pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu to end Gaza war

Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has stepped up his scathing criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza, accusing Benjamin Netanyahu’s government of “exterminating a defenceless people” by bombing hospitals and “killing innocent boys and girls with hunger”.

Speaking on Monday morning to announce a raft of measures designed to increase the pressure on Netanyahu to stop the military campaign, Sánchez said that while the Spanish government would always support Israel’s right to exist and to defend itself, it felt compelled to try to “stop a massacre”.

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