Albares argues that Israel cannot be given the right to veto the existence of a Palestinian State.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares, has announced that Spain will send 12,000 kilos of food to Gaza to help alleviate the induced famine, and that they will be added to the trucks with Spanish humanitarian aid waiting to cross the border from Israel.

In statements to the media upon his arrival in New York, where he will defend the two-state solution for Israel and Palestine at the UN headquarters on Monday, the head of Spanish diplomacy announced the shipment of the equivalent of 5,500 food rations to Gaza through the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECID).

Albares denounced the induced famine in Gaza, which claims the lives of people every day due to the lack of access to food piled up at Gaza's borders. He also detailed that 100,000 children, 40,000 of them babies, are at risk of dying in the coming days.

For this reason, he emphasized the importance of this food shipment, which will arrive starting August 1st, awaiting entry into the Gaza Strip, at a very difficult time for the Palestinian people. In his opinion, the time to act has come and cannot wait until tomorrow. This must be done for justice for the Palestinian people and to guarantee peace and security for all in the Middle East, including, of course, Israel.

However, Albares referred in an interview on RNE's 'Las mañanas', which Europa Press reported, to the High-Level International Conference being held this Monday at UN headquarters for the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine, and he claimed the need for a two-state solution.

Israel claims that 120 trucks of humanitarian aid have been delivered to the Gaza Strip.

There is a State that already exists, which is Israel, and we defend its existence, but the other one, the State of Palestine, is missing, which must be established, he asserted, insisting that the terrible induced famine should not occur and that, therefore, this conference is more important than ever to establish that Palestinian State.

Asked whether this demand is of little value, given that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not expected to take any steps towards recognising Palestine, the Foreign Minister admitted that there is certainly no indication that such a thing will happen, but stressed the importance of this conference so that the international community can recognise the two states.

We cannot give the Israeli government some kind of veto power over the existence or nonexistence of the State of Palestine, over whether children and babies in Gaza can eat or not, over whether the Palestinian people have the right to peace or not, over whether illegal settlements will continue to expand in the West Bank or not. It cannot be in the hands of the Israeli government to decide things like the life or death of Palestinians, the foreign minister stated.