Overview
- In Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies, rival requests from Morena and PAN for minutes of silence—one for Palestinians and one for Israelis—prompted the presiding officer, Kenia López Rabadán, to order two separate observances.
- The session devolved into shouting, chants such as “Palestina libre,” and pushing on the dais, preventing a quiet tribute and forcing deputies to be separated on the floor.
- Morena’s María Magdalena Rosales called the situation a genocide and urged blocking a planned Israel friendship group, while PAN’s Margarita Zavala sought a tribute naming Mexican victim Orión Hernández of the 2023 Hamas attack.
- Despite the melee and viral footage of the scuffles, the legislative agenda proceeded after the disrupted observance.
- In Spain, the Congress held a minute of silence that honored victims of Hamas’s October 7 attack and explicitly referenced more than 67,000 Palestinian deaths since then, using wording proposed by the Partido Popular.