IU asks the Prosecutor’s Office to prevent another dozen ships loaded with military material for Israel from stopping in Algeciras

The IU spokesperson in Congress, Enrique Santiago, has this Friday expanded the complaint that he presented to the Prosecutor’s Office to investigate two American ships loaded with military material for Israel to another dozen vessels that have planned stops in Algeciras (Cádiz) in the coming days and weeks.

elDiario.es published this Thursday that 11 ships from the Maersk shipping company will likely transport weapons to Israel from the United States, transiting in Algeciras between November of this year and February 2025. As elDiario.es revealed a few days ago, between May and September This year, more than a thousand shipments of military material for Israel passed through Algeciras, despite the fact that in May the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José María Albares, assured that Spain would not allow this type of operations.

This Friday, Santiago and the lawyer and leader of IU Juan Moreno have registered with the State Attorney General’s Office an extension of that complaint in which they warn of the arrival of thirteen new ships from the Maersk shipping company “with cargo for military use destined for Israel”. The letter specifies that the ships depart from the port of Newark (New Jersey) and “plan to stop and refuel in Algeciras.”

Santiago and Moreno argue that “it seems feasible to reason that we are faced with a rational and programmed cooperation of the Maersk shipping company to supply weapons for the benefit of the State of Israel for the execution of a generalized or systematic attack against the Palestinian and Lebanese civilian population,” Therefore, it requests that the “relevant investigation tasks” be opened “urgently” to clarify the company’s responsibility.

Furthermore, it urges “to take the appropriate legal actions to prevent” these ships from stopping in Algeciras, which they see as “commissive conduct that contributes to the perpetration of serious crimes against the international community.”

The IU leaders remember that “between May and September of 2024 there were at least 25 maritime journeys from the United States with military cargo that stopped at the port of Algeciras, before continuing to Israel to deliver it.”