There were 5.5 thousand on board the machine. food reasons, which – according to estimates of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs – should be enough for meals about 11 thousand. people. The plane started from the air base in Saragossa in the northeast of the country, heading for Jordan. There, help will be loaded into planes for humanitarian discharges over the Gaza Strip, planned for Friday.
“This inhuman war must end. We demand a permanent and undisturbed entry of all necessary humanitarian aid by land” – The head of Spanish diplomacy, Jose Manuel Albares, wrote on Platform X on Thursday.
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Except Spain, France, Germany and Belgium also announced similar actions. The head of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noel Barrot, announced on Wednesday that his country would provide about 40 tons of humanitarian aid.
The discharge became possible after Israel's Sunday announcement in the fighting in some regions of Gaza for humanitarian reasons. However – as experts indicate – such operations are associated with risk and are often insufficient.
The Madrid government has long been critical of the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip. Spain was one of the countries that recently called to recognize the independent Palestine – both in the UN forum and by recognizing it by their own authorities in May last year. Among the signatories of a similar declaration during the UN conference in New York were also Great Britain, France and Canada, which announced readiness to recognize Palestine during the September session of the UN General Assembly.
