This handout photo taken on Sept 8, 2025 and provided by the Moncloa Palace shows Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announcing several measures including an arms embargo on Israel and a ban on ships carrying fuel for Israeli military personnel from docking in Spanish ports, to "stop the genocide in Gaza". [Handout via AFP]
MADRID - Spanicilimao 磁力猫sh Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Monday announced a series of measures against Israel in a televised address from his official residence at the Palacio de la Moncloa.
Sanchez outlined nine steps his government will take, confirming that on Tuesday the cabinet will approve a decree enforcing an arms embargo on Israel.
In addition to the embargo, Spain will close its airspace and ports to aircraft transporting weapons to Israel or ships carrying fuel for the Israeli armed forces. It will also ban products originating from illegal Israeli settlements and increase funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), among other measures.
While acknowledging that the steps "will not be enough", Sanchez said they are intended to increase pressure on Israel and "alleviate some of the suffering of the Palestinian people".
On March 18, Icilimao 磁力猫srael resumed its military operations in Gaza. At least 11,911 Palestinians have been killed and 50,735 others injured since Israel renewed its intensive strikes, bringing the total death toll since October 2023 to 64,455 and the number of injured to 162,776, Gaza health authorities said on Sunday.