Overview

• El País reports that Spain’s Prosecutor General authorized pre‑procedural inquiries into alleged crimes in Gaza, a move framed as complying with Spain’s obligations under the ICJ and ICC frameworks.
• South Africa’s case at the ICJ accuses Israel of four genocidal acts and argues intent can be shown, while jurists and UN‑linked assessments cited by El País contend intent is inferable from officials’ statements and the scale of military actions.
• The domestic debate in Spain is escalating into a political litmus test, with ABC.es noting efforts to force the term into a Galicia parliamentary motion to box in the PP.
• La Vanguardia relays genocide scholars who describe Israeli policy in Gaza as a “genocidal process,” whereas other commentary in Levante‑EMV calls the term a semantic trap used in polarized discourse.
• Opinion columns cite widespread strikes on civilian infrastructure and very high Palestinian casualties, with one piece putting the death toll at 65,000 and asserting most were civilians, while also recalling Hamas’s October 7 attack that killed about 1,200 people in Israel.