The Prosecutor’s Office of the National Court has filed the complaint in which to add requested that it be investigated whether military material from Zaragoza was sent to Israel since January 2024 and while the Israeli army offensive lasted in the Gaza Strip. last February, the United Left parliamentary spokesman, Enrique Santiago, presented the brief before the Public Ministry. As ‘El Español’ has advanced and have confirmed fiscal sources to Europa Press, the Prosecutor’s Office has now given a folder to this complaint.
In the same, Santiago requested that the Prosecutor’s Office open proceedings to clarify whether there was a transfer of arms to Israel in full conflict in Gaza, since if so it would be a serious infraction against International humanitarian law, for war and genocide crimes. The parliamentarian, attached to the plurinational group to add in Congress, had previously completed complaints of this type in which he urged to investigate whether from Spain he allowed, for example, the bearing of several freighters with suspicion of transporting military or explosive material to the final destination to Israel.
For this, the IU leader relied on an investigation of organizations such as’ Progressive International ‘,’ American Friends Service Commit ‘eldiario.es’ in November 2024.
The complaint described more than 40 flights operated from the Zaragoza Air Base (Spain) to Ben Gurion airport, in Israel, through various airlines, of which it has been proven that they have transported military material, according to the aforementioned report. Specifically, the report stated that they were more than 60,000 parts of weapons and rifles transported through our country in that period of time.
It also alluded that in the last quarter of 2024 new imports and armament acquisition contracts to Israeli companies in Spain were also detected. And before this, the Ministries of Defense and Interior announced that they were going to initiate a process to annul the award of these contracts, but “they did not provide more specific data” and could not be confirmed as far as that cancellation or the termination clauses had come.
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