Spain sanctions West Bank extremist settlers

“José Manuel Albarez”, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain, said: “We are preparing individual sanctions against violent settlers in the West Bank, where the situation is as worrying as Gaza; Because the settlement policy directly violates international laws.”

Albars emphasized Spain’s refusal to issue new arms export licenses to the Zionist regime, as well as the granting of 3.5 million euros to the United Nations Palestinian Refugee Agency (UNRWA) when all the main donors had cut off their financial aid. He said that Madrid has made great contributions to the peace process in the West Asia.

With the operation of the Palestinian resistance movement (Hamas) against the positions of the Zionist regime in the Gaza Strip, which was called “Operation Al-Aqsa Storm”, the violence of the Zionist settlers against the Palestinians of the West Bank has increased.

After the victory over the Arabs in the Six-Day War in 1967, the Zionist regime violated international law and started building settlements in the West Bank of the Jordan River. Despite the pressure from the international community, the occupying regime continues to develop its settlements and builds settlements in new areas.

Tel Aviv’s different cabinets in the past have each driven Jews to move to these settlements and occupy Palestinian land with their own policies. From subsidies and tax discounts to cheap municipal services. Until today, Tel Aviv has built 146 settlements in the West Bank, and 144 other settlements have been established by Jews without obtaining permission from the Zionist authorities. Therefore, even the media of this regime call these settlements illegal. A total of 470,000 settlers, who are mostly Jews, live in the West Bank.