Spain’s PM says Israel to inflict on Lebanon same destruction as in Gaza
📰 Original article: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/25/spains-pm-says-israel-to-inflict-on-leb…
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- Propaganda Score
- 70% (confidence: 80%)
- Summary
- Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez criticizes Israel's military actions in Lebanon and Gaza, comparing the conflict to the Iraq invasion. He condemns the US-Israeli war on Iran as more severe than the 2003 Iraq invasion. The article also notes Spain's legal actions against Israel and international reactions to Israel's potential occupation of southern Lebanon.
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“More than 72,000 Palestinians have been killed and vast swaths of Gaza have been turned into rubble in Israeli attacks since October 7, 2023”
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“France’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Jean-Noel Barrot said Israel should refrain from its planned occupation of southern Lebanon”
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“Israel’s far-right Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich called for Israel’s official annexation of southern Lebanon”
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“Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has said Israel 'seeks to inflict the same level of damage and destruction' on Lebanon as on the Gaza Strip”
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“A United Nations inquiry also found that Israel’s war on Gaza amounts to a genocide”
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“Israel’s preparations to invade Lebanon and take control of territory up to 30km (18.6 miles) inside its southern border have also drawn condemnation from Canada”
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“Sanchez also said his government stood against the United States-Israeli war on Iran, which presented a 'far worse' scenario than the invasion of Iraq in 2003”
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“The Spanish government decided to withdraw its ambassador to Israel”
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“Sanchez added that Iran’s new supreme leader was more hardline than his predecessor. 'Mojtaba Khamenei is an equally dictatorial and even more bloodthirsty tyrant than his father,' he said”
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“Spain’s PM says Israel to inflict on Lebanon same destruction as in Gaza”
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“Spain’s parliament approved the enshrinement in law of a total arms embargo on Israel, permanently banning the sale of weapons, dual-use technology and military equipment”
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“The world’s top genocide scholars formally declared in September that Israel’s war on Gaza meets the legal definition of genocide”
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“Israel’s Minister of Defense Israel Katz said Israel’s military was 'following the model of Rafah and Beit Hanoon' in Lebanon”
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“Spain has also been one of the few European nations to consistently condemn and take action against Israel’s ongoing genocidal war on Gaza”
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“Despite a 'ceasefire' in place since October 2025, Israel has killed more than 800 Palestinians in almost daily breaches of the Trump-brokered truce”
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