Spanish minister backs legal initiative to bring Israel before ICC for ‘war crimes’ in Palestine

Spain’s social rights minister, Ione Belarra, has backed a legal initiative to bring the Israeli regime before the International Criminal Court (ICC) for “war crimes” in Palestine.

Belarra on Wednesday asked any dual-nationals from Palestine and European countries and their family members who are victims of war crimes to contact French lawyer Juan Branco to bring Israel’s crimes before the national jurisdictions and at the International Criminal Court, “free of charge.”

Branco earlier wrote on X platform (formerly known as twitter) that he agreed to represent “any victim of war crimes or crimes against humanity as well as any member of their family” free of charge.

Belarra is one of the European politicians who has spoken out against Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip.

“Bombing hospitals, refugee camps, children, defenseless elderly people, Israel is demonstrating the worst of humanity. How long will European leaders make us accomplices of this barbarism,” she wrote earlier.

She has also demanded that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu be brought before the ICC for war crimes and urged European officials to put economic sanctions on Netanyahu and break off ties with the Israeli regime.

“We need exemplary economic sanctions on Netanyahu and all those responsible for the genocide of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. We also need an immediate arms embargo. Europe can and must act with autonomy and seek peace,” she said in an interview last month.