Pedro Sanchez is delivering a speech to MPs presenting Spain’s policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Al Jazeera reports.
The prime minister said Israel’s “disproportionate response” in its onslaught on Gaza risks “destabilising the Middle East, and as a consequence, the entire world”.
Sanchez added that the recognition of a Palestinian state, which has long been resisted by Israel and its allies, is “in Europe’s geopolitical interests”.
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