The Spanish government has decided to launch investigations into companies that promote products or services in the country originating from Israel.
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This decision follows the approval of a decree last week prohibiting the promotion of such goods and services in Spain, aiming to prevent companies from benefiting from Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories, according to a statement by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs.
The decree is part of a broader set of measures, including a ban on supplying weapons to Israel, aimed at stopping what Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez described as the “genocide in Gaza.”
Earlier this year, Consumer Affairs Minister Pablo Bustinduy stated that his office would use “all necessary resources” to ensure that no company operating in Spain profits from the occupation.
Among the measures taken, the Directorate General of Consumer Affairs will investigate companies that exploit business from the occupied territories, in line with recommendations by UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese in her July 2025 report titled “Profit and Loss Accounts Stained with the Blood of the Palestinian People.”
Bustinduy said, “We will ensure that the profit and loss accounts of any company operating in Spain are not stained with the blood of the Palestinian people,” adding that he will ensure “any company active in Spain relinquishes all operations linked to the Israeli occupation, directly or indirectly.”
Last Friday, the United Nations updated its database of companies operating in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, listing 158 companies from 11 countries engaged in activities raising “human rights concerns” in the West Bank.
Of the 158 companies, 138 are Israeli and 20 are foreign. Spain is the second-largest non-Israeli country represented on the list, with four companies operating in the infrastructure sector, following the United States, which has six.
Spain is among the strongest European critics of Israel’s aggression against Gaza, which has claimed more than 66,000 lives.
—(Al Jazeera)
