Heat has not prevented a relevant group for culture personalities from gathering this morning as representatives of the more than 1,700 signatories of a statement demanding that governments “the immediate cessation of the massacre in Gaza” and an “active embargo of weapons to Israel.” The photograph has been carried out at eleven at noon at the door of the Madrid Park of Retiro that gives to the door of Alcalá.
In the statement you can read: “The civilian population is being bombed in Gaza, tens of thousands of boys and girls are being killed, mutilated, subjected to traumas that will mark their lives forever. Ambulances, hospitals, schools and shelters have become military objectives. Journalists, humanitarian workers and health personnel are prevented, and access to humanitarian aid is prevented, and sometimes it is prevented from humanitarian aid. subjecting the population to hunger and the lack of medical assistance, ”reads the text.
Among those present in the retirement were people from cinema and theater (Almudena Carracedo, Carlos Bardem, Fernando León, Montxo Armendáriz, Puy Oria, Patricia de Muns, Fernando Colomo, Fernando Méndez-Leite, Felipe Vega, Pepe Viyuela, María Barranc Pepón Nieto, Lola Salvador, Cecilia Bartolomé, Elena Manrique or Vicky Peña), of journalism (Iñaki Gabilondo, Sandra Sabatés, Julio Ruiz, Carlos del Amor or Berna G. Harbour), and other personalities such as Paul Preston, Juan Gómez Jurado, Marwán, Conchi Cascajosa, Rosa Montero or Juan Luis Cano.
The signatories also condemn the terrorist attacks of October 7, 2023, which gave rise to the Israeli offensive, and demand the “immediate liberation of the hostages still retained by Hamas.” They also urge “that the orders and opinions of the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice are fulfilled asking that the illegal occupation be put into the segregation mechanisms that are used against the Palestinian population”.
Among others of the 1,700 signatories are Pedro Almodóvar, Gioconda Belli, Javier Bardem, Javier Cercas, Ana Belén, Joaquín Sabina, Juan Gabriel Vásquez or Víctor Erice, stand out in a list of signatories full of recognized names.
Before, many of the signers of the text had publicly supported the demonstrations held on Saturday throughout the country against the war. The statement made public this Sunday ends “encouraging the mobilization of citizenship in defense of human rights and demanding the end of the genocide of the Palestinian people.”
The war in Gaza already exceeds 55,000 dead, of which two thirds are minors and women. According to a report by the Center of the Peace Studies, which is based on the official records of the Customs Authority of Israel, between the beginning of the war and last March 31, Israel received 88 shipments of Spanish weapons and ammunition worth 5.3 million euros.