King Felipe of Spain has begged Israel to “stop the massacre” and end its “abhorrent acts” in Gaza during an unusually direct and powerful address to the UN general assembly in which he also defended the UN’s role in an increasingly “frenetic and out of control” world.
Although the monarch was careful not to use the word “genocide” – a term already employed by the country’s outspoken prime minister, Pedro Sánchez – he said Spain and others were at a loss to understand Israel’s actions in Gaza.
