Evacuees from Gaza land in Spain

A military plane carrying 139 people, mostly Spanish-Palestinian citizens and some of their relatives, from Egypt after being evacuated from the besieged
Gaza Strip landed in Madrid on Thursday.
Spain’s acting Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares and acting Defence Minister Margarita Robles welcomed the evacuees on the runway of the Torrejon de Ardoz air base, outside the Spanish capital.
According to the defence ministry, the passengers included 33 men, 39 women and 67 minors – three of them babies under one year of age. Eighty-five of the evacuees held Spanish passports, while the remaining 54 were Palestinian nationals.
Albares expressed his happiness at their arrival, adding: “We shouldn’t forget that the lives of many other Palestinian civilians are being unjustly threatened by bombings”.