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Spain says will probe Israel’s crimes in Gaza in cooperation with ICC

Thursday, 18 September 2025 10:54 AM [ Last Update: Thursday, 18 September 2025 10:54 AM ]

Wounded Palestinian children are taken to the al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital for medical treatment after an Israeli attack on the Maghazi refugee camp in Deir el-Balah, Gaza, on December 9, 2024. (Photo by Anadolu Agency)

Spain has announced its decision to probe Israel's rights violations in the Gaza Strip in support of the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) ongoing investigation into the regime’s war crimes against Palestinians during the nearly two-year-long genocidal war.

In a statement on Thursday, the office of Spanish Attorney General Alvaro Garcia Ortiz said he had issued a “decree” to set up “a working team” tasked with investigating violations of international human rights law in Gaza.

The team will “gather evidence and make it available to the competent body, thereby fulfilling Spain’s obligations regarding international cooperation and human rights,” it added.

“Faced with the current situation in the Palestinian territories, all evidence, direct or indirect, that can be gathered in our country” on crimes committed in the besieged territory must be included for potential use in the ICC case.

The ICC has an ongoing investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Gaza, the West Bank, and the occupied territories.

In November 2024, the Hague-based tribunal issued arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former minister of military affairs Yoav Gallant for crimes against humanity and war crimes related to the genocide in Gaza.

The ruling obliged all the 125 countries, which signed the Rome Statute establishing the ICC, to detain and surrender the pair to the ICC.

Spain intervenes in South Africa's genocide case against Israel

Spain intervenes in a genocide case that was initiated late last year by South Africa at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against the Israeli regime.

Spain had also joined a case brought by South Africa before another world court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which says Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip are genocidal in character.

The occupying regime waged its brutal Gaza onslaught on October 7, 2023. Since then, it has killed at least 65,141 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 165,925 others.

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