Spain joins EU call for urgent humanitarian aid access to Gaza
During remarks in Brussels on Monday, Spain’s foreign minister announced that a joint letter had been delivered ahead of a scheduled gathering of EU foreign ministers. The message urges immediate and comprehensive action to ensure aid can enter Gaza without obstruction.
“Spain, along with five other European Union countries, has sent a letter to High Representative Kaja Kallas, urging her to ensure that all humanitarian aid—from the EU, of course—enters Gaza en masse and that she therefore takes all possible initiatives and utilizes all available channels to achieve this,” he said.
According to reports citing officials familiar with the matter, the appeal was also endorsed by Ireland, Luxembourg, Belgium, Slovenia, and Portugal.
The Spanish foreign minister stressed that conditions in Gaza remain highly unstable and warned that the ceasefire currently in place could collapse. “There is a ceasefire that is too fragile and, above all, suffers too many constant violations, and therefore it must be definitively consolidated,” he said.
He also noted that discussions during the meeting would include communication with US special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, a former senior adviser and relative of US President Donald Trump. These talks, he explained, would focus on what he described as a preliminary peace initiative.
The proposal, he added, offered “a ray of hope for the Palestinian population, and very specifically for the Gazan population, but it still needs a lot of consolidation.”
Despite the ceasefire that came into force on Oct. 10, humanitarian conditions inside Gaza have not seen meaningful improvement. Restrictions on aid deliveries remain in place, with continued limitations on the entry of relief trucks, in breach of the humanitarian commitments outlined in the agreement.
Since October 2023, Israeli military operations in Gaza have resulted in the deaths of more than 70,600 people—most of them women and children—and left over 171,100 injured. These attacks have continued even after the truce was announced.
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