The PP demands from Yolanda Díaz a "resounding" condemnation of the terrorist attack in Gaza and in Sumar they now speak of "war crimes"

The PP believes that the Government should have informed Alberto Núñez Feijóo about the situation of the two Spaniards who disappeared after the Hamas terrorist attack in Gaza. “Until now, neither the Minister of Foreign Affairs nor anyone from the Government has contacted the PP regarding this circumstance, and it would be advisable for them to do so as a matter of institutional respect,” said the deputy secretary general of the PP Borja Sémper, in a press conference after the meeting of the 'popular' Steering Committee. “It seems relevant and serious to us,” he stressed, before emphasizing that it is also not known “if the current president of the EU, who is Pedro Sánchez, has spoken with the Israeli prime minister.”

For the PP, this is not the worst of the “Government's reaction” to the outbreak of violence in Gaza, but rather that the Executive has projected “a disastrous image” due to its division when condemning the attack.. “There are various members of the acting Government, and also Sánchez's parliamentary partners, who have justified the terrorist attack against Israel,” Sémper criticized.. “Half the government is in favor of Putin or not showing support for Ukraine and half the government does not condemn the Hamas terrorist attack with the necessary forcefulness”. “The position should be easy and clear: always in favor of human rights and always against terrorism,” stressed the popular spokesperson.

“We Spaniards do not have to put up with the lack of forcefulness of the Government, we do not have to put up with such shame and such an international image,” said Sémper.. “A mob of terrorists is sowing terror in Israel and we greatly regret that Sánchez's dependence on certain political formations that are ideologically and politically close to the Hamas environment is causing this lack of forcefulness,” he went on to say.

Sémper has demanded in this sense a condemnation of all the ministers of the Government functions, “singularly and especially by the vice president” Yolanda Díaz. The number three in the Executive tweeted to express solidarity with “all the victims”, without specifically mentioning those of the Hamas terrorist attack.. Díaz requested the intervention of the international community and asked to “end the occupation” of Israel. “We need a just, lasting and sustainable peace and that means complying with international law, ending the occupation and allowing the Palestinian people to live with dignity.”. “The international community cannot continue to stand idly by,” he wrote.

“Terrorists are especially targeting women, murdering, kidnapping and raping. And kids. We citizens cannot tolerate the lack of forcefulness or the division of this Government in the face of such atrocious events.. In the face of this, a narrow-minded feminism is not valid,” explained Sémper, who has called for “overcoming acronyms and defending the dignity of the victims” as has been done by the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, who urged the French Socialist Party to ” put an end to the disalliance with Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who has nothing to do with him”. Mélenchon did not use the word “terrorism” in his analysis of what happened.

Sémper recalled that independent organizations such as Amnesty International have highlighted the homophobic and sexist nature of Hamas, which “continually” violates human rights.

On the other hand, Sémper has assured that the PP will be “forceful but calm” in its fight against the “scandal” that “a political elite amnesties itself because Sánchez needs to continue governing.”. If the amnesty is finally approved, will the PP immediately activate demonstrations? “We do not rule out anything in defense of the equality of Spaniards, any democratic mobilization or any political position. In any case, we are going in parts,” he wanted to placate.

“WAR CRIMES”

From Sumar and the parties that make it up, there has been a relevant change with respect to the first assessments they made through social networks in the first moments of the Hamas attack.. Now, in addition to blaming Israel, the actions committed by this Islamist group are also “condemned.”

For Sumar deputy Enrique Santiago (IU) “war crimes” have been committed. “War crimes that have been committed must be judged as such, as war crimes. It is striking and surprising that the international community is only alarmed when war crimes affect one victim and not others.. “Victims are always victims regardless of which side they are on,” he noted, emphasizing that we are facing an “armed conflict” and that “all peoples have the right to defend themselves from any illicit aggression.”

Asked if he considers Hamas a terrorist group, the also general secretary of the PCE answered the following: “We neither consider it nor stop considering it because we do not know what a terrorist group is.. “Everyone defines that as they want and until now the inclusion of organizations on terrorist lists responds to political criteria of the State.”. He has downloaded that label in the sentences that there may be from the courts.

For her part, Sumar's deputy Tesh Sidi (Más Madrid) has indicated that the “atrocities” and “crimes against humanity” committed this weekend “cannot justify anything other than an act of terrorism.” .

In his opinion, “it is fair to talk about the entire history of the Palestinian conflict and the siege that Palestinian civil society has suffered,” but that “obviously that does not support the crimes that have been committed against Israeli civil society this weekend or the exposure of victims in those terrible videos”.

“It is unfair to talk about Palestine when it concerns Israel and we have to remember that the Israeli State continues to commit crimes on a daily basis that are not condemned,” he said.. “It is not fair to condemn the Hamas part, which must be condemned, but rather all the atrocities that are committed day and night.”

Sumar's spokesman, Ernest Urtasun, has condemned the Hamas attacks although he has denounced the “double standard” in European bodies that are “silent” against the “atrocities” of this country towards the Palestinian people.. Thus, he has called for the immediate cessation of Israel's response on Gaza.

The co-spokesperson of Podemos, Isa Serra, has denounced the hypocrisy of the international community in the face of Israel's “state terrorism” against the Palestinian population, with a “far-right” government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.. In fact, he has emphasized that they now put their “hands on their heads” at the international level after the Hamas offensive, but silence the actions of Israel, a “Zionist, theocratic and non-democratic” State.

At a press conference this Monday at the party headquarters, he expressed his concern at the statements by Israel's Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant, to order a “total siege” on the Gaza Strip, with the cessation of basic supplies to the Palestinian population. Then, he assured that a “lasting” peace in the area will only be possible if the Israeli state's decades-long occupation of Palestinian territory is “ended.”