The Solidarity Network against the Occupation of Palestine (RESCOP) has called for demonstrations throughout Spain this Saturday, January 20, "for the end of the genocide in Palestine, the end of the arms trade and the breaking of relations with Israel."
Specifically, the mobilizations have been held in a total of 115 Spanish cities to protest against the Spanish Government for being "failing to comply with state and international legislation by maintaining the arms trade with Israel."
The organizers of the protest consider that the Spanish Executive "is not doing everything possible to prevent the genocide against the Palestinian people." "We must pressure the Spanish Government to end its complicity!" they say.
In Madrid, the demonstration, which was joined by 180 organizations and groups, started at 12 noon from Atocha and ended in the Plaza de Cibeles. In the afternoon, around 6,000 people demonstrated in the center of Barcelona with the slogan 'Let's stop the genocide'. In Vigo, hundreds of people have also taken to the streets for the same reason. In several cities of Castilla y León, the massacre of Palestinians has also been responded to with demonstrations of indignation. Thousands of Andalusians have also gathered in the capitals of the provinces of Andalusia to ask the Sánchez Executive to break ties with Israel once and for all. Thousands of other people have also demonstrated in the Canary Islands. Cities such as Girona or Logroño, among others, have also registered marches.
The protesters demand that the Spanish Government lead an "immediate and permanent" ceasefire; end the "buying and selling of weapons and military and security technology" with Israel; support South Africa's lawsuit at the International Court of Justice against Israel "for genocide"; recover universal jurisdiction and increase the support of the Spanish State to the International Criminal Court; break diplomatic, institutional, economic, sports and cultural relations with Israel; and end the "persecution and criminalization" of solidarity with Palestine and repeal the Gag Law.
"We want to recognize the resistance of the Palestinian people against occupation, ethnic cleansing, apartheid and colonization and we urge civil society and demand that institutions promote the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, the coalition with the largest support of Palestinian society, which seeks to reject the normalization of Israeli apartheid policies and exert pressure to make a regime of illegal occupation, colonialism and apartheid unsustainable," RESCOP points out.
The organization warns that Israel "has been intentionally and systematically bombing" the Gaza Strip since October 7, subject to, in its opinion, "a suffocating and illegal blockade for more than 16 years."
"The cruelty of these latest attacks is unprecedented, with more than 30,000 people murdered, of which more than 10,000 are children. Numerous jurists and United Nations experts are denouncing that what is happening in Gaza could be a crime of genocide" , concludes RESCOP.
