The majority of people in five countries – Brazil, Colombia, Greece, South Africa and Spain – believe that weapons companies should stop or reduce trade with Israel as their attack on Gaza continues, and a poll that was released on Thursday revealed.
Spain showed the highest support for arms deals, with 58 percent of the respondents said that they should stop completely, followed by Greece by 57 percent and Colombia by 52 percent. In Brazil, 37 percent of the respondents believe that weapons companies should completely stop sales to Israel, while 22 percent believe that it should be reduced. In South Africa, those levels reached 46 and 20 percent, respectively.
Commissioned by the global energy blockade of the Palestine Network, approved by the Left Progressive International Organization, which was submitted by the survey platform last month, the survey comes in the wake of Francesca Albaniz, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian soil, to countries to reduce financial relations with Israel is that it was it.Genocide economy“.
Anna Sanchez, a global embarrassment campaign for Palestine, said: “People have spoken, and they refuse to be complicit. Through continents, ordinary citizens ask to end the fuel that indicates the colonization of settlers, racial separation and genocide,” said Anna Sanchez, a global embarrassment campaign for Palestine.
“There is no country that claims to support democracy can justify the preservation of military, military or economic relations with Israel while committing genocide in Palestine. This is not only related to trade; it is related to the authority of people to reduce latitudes from persecution.”
The group said that it chose the survey sites because of the participation of the direct countries in importing and transporting energy to Israel.
More than 1,000 respondents in each country were asked about the government and private sector relations with Israel to measure public positions on responsibility.
The condemnation of Israel’s work in Gaza with the escalation of the humanitarian crisis was the highest in Greece and Spain and the lowest level in Brazil.
Sixty -one percent and 60 percent in Greece and Spain, respectively, are presenting the current “military measures” of Israel in Gaza, while in Colombia, 50 percent opposed them. In Brazil and South Africa, it was 30 percent against the Israel war, while 33 percent and 20 percent, respectively, supported the campaign.

So far, the genocide of Israel in Gaza has killed more than 60,000 people – most of them women and children. Now the largest number of children’s amulet for the individual, most of the besieged tape is in a state of ruin with the hunger of the population. As the crisis exacerbates, arms dealers and companies whose deals facilitate the increasing scrutiny.
In June, as the island mentioned, Marsk get rid of companies Associated with Israeli settlements, which are illegal under international law, after a campaign accusing the Danish freight giant of Israeli military ties and the occupation of Palestinian territories.
Tuesday, Norway announced It will review the investments of the sovereign wealth fund in Israel, after it was revealed that it had a stake in an Israeli company that provides spare parts combat aircraft to the Israeli army. In recent months, many wealth funds and pensions have distanced companies related to the Israeli war on Gaza or their illegal occupation of the West Bank.
In response to the survey, 41 percent in Spain said they would “strongly support” a state level to reduce trade in weapons, fuel and other commodities in an attempt to pressure Israel to stop the war. This number was 33 percent in Colombia and South Africa, and 28 and 24 percent in Greece and Brazil, respectively.
“The message of the people of the world is high and clear: they want to take action to end the attack on Gaza-and not only the words,” said David Adler, General Coordinator of Progressive International. “Through the continents, the majority calls for the stopping of arms sales and the restriction of the occupation of Israel.”
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