GAZA(Palestine Foundation Information Center)The Hamas Movement has expressed its appreciation to the Spanish and Belgian prime ministers for their stated positions against Israel’s war crimes in the Gaza Strip, describing their remarks in this regard as “straightforward and courageous.”
In a statement on Saturday, Hamas called on the world’s countries to side with the justice of the Palestinian cause and the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination and the establishment of an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.
Hamas also called for supporting such “bold” stances and stepping up the international condemnation of the Israeli occupation regime’s atrocities in Gaza to pressure it to end its genocidal war on the civilians.
In a joint news conference held on the Egyptian side of Gaza’s Rafah border crossing on Friday, Spain’s premier Pedro Sanchez and his Belgian counterpart Alexander De Croo deplored Israel’s for its mass killing of civilians and large-scale destruction in Gaza.
“The indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians including thousands of boys and girls is completely unacceptable,” Sanchez said.
“Violence will only lead to more violence,” Sanchez added.
The Spanish premier said the time had come for the international community and the European Union (EU) to recognize a Palestinian state once and for all. He said it would be better if the EU did it together, “but if this is not the case … Spain will take their own decisions.”
“The destruction of Gaza is unacceptable. We cannot accept that a society is being destroyed the way it is being destroyed by Israel,” the Belgian premier told reporters in Rafah.
He added that Israel’s response to Hamas’s military operation on October 7 must “respect the international humanitarian law.”
“The deaths of civilians must stop” he insisted.
