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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Sam Jones in Madrid

Spanish deputy PM’s party calls for cancellation of Israeli arms order

Yolanda Díaz
Yolanda Díaz founded the Sumar platform, which described the arms contract as a ‘flagrant breach’. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock

The leftwing junior partners in Spain’s socialist-led coalition government have called on the interior ministry to cancel a €6.6m (£5.7m) order for millions of bullets from an Israeli company, claiming the deal breaches coalition agreements and undermines efforts to hold Israel to account over its actions in Gaza.

Spain’s socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has been one of the most outspoken critics of Israel’s prosecution of the war in Gaza, questioning whether it is following international humanitarian law and calling the number of Palestinian deaths “truly unbearable”.

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