Spain Renews Push to Punish Israel After Orban’s Loss

Spain called for the European Union to penalize Israel over its actions in Gaza, reviving a push after Hungarian leader Viktor Orban’s loss potentially removed one of the bloc’s biggest obstacles to taking action.

“We need to tell Israel clearly that it has to change course,” Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares told reporters on Tuesday, as he arrived for an EU foreign ministers’ meeting in Luxembourg. “War can not be the only way of having relations with neighbors.”