Overview

• Socialists will table a motion in the Senate calling the Gaza violence a genocide, demanding an unconditional and sustained ceasefire, and urging an end to what they term illegal plans of occupation and annexation.
• PSOE spokesman Juan Espadas urged the PP to vote in favor after its May abstention on a Gaza motion, while party sources say they expect the PP may again decline to back the text.
• The Catalan Parliament opened its session with a minute of silence condemning a genocide in Gaza, supported by PSC, ERC, Comuns, CUP and Junts, as Vox and Aliança Catalana left the chamber and the PPC stayed despite opposing the wording.
• In the Balearic Parliament, unanimity for a formal minute of silence failed after the PP rejected PSOE’s explicit genocide language and sought references to Hamas victims and hostages, and two Vox deputies banged their desks as left-wing members stood silently.
• A July Real Instituto Elcano poll found 82% of Spaniards reject Israel’s actions and describe them as genocide, and government partners split on the U.S. president’s ceasefire proposal, with PSOE welcoming it and Sumar rejecting it.