Overview

• Lawmakers vote today on validating the government’s real‑decree embargo that halts defense exports to Israel, dual‑use items, and military‑end‑use fuels transiting Spanish ports or airspace.
• PSOE and Sumar back the measure, while Podemos has not revealed its vote and criticizes the text as riddled with exceptions, warning it must be a “real and effective” embargo.
• PP and Vox have declared they will vote no, creating the arithmetic that a Podemos rejection would sink the decree, which otherwise remains in force only if Congress confirms it.
• Vice President Yolanda Díaz has proposed a UN‑backed peace conference in Madrid, urged cutting relations and suspending the EU’s association agreement with Israel, and cited mass pro‑Palestine demonstrations across Spain.
• Díaz left open Spain taking a case to the International Criminal Court over alleged mistreatment of Flotilla activists, pressed for a formal diplomatic complaint, and criticized EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen’s silence.