
After years of accusing Israel of genocide and after joining the case pending against Israel at the International Court of Justice, Spain now finds itself a target of a similar accusation — war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Shurat HaDin, an Israeli group that leverages legal warfare to hit back hard at the lawfare waged against Israel, filed a formal complaint with the International Criminal Court, requesting an arrest warrant for Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez for the sale of components that could be used in explosive devices to Iran. Shurat HaDin argued that there is a “reasonable and credible basis” for an investigation of Sánchez due to the 13 million euro sale of detonators and other explosive-related components that provided material support to the authoritarian regime, which in turn supplied its proxy terror groups, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, with these materials.

What’s more, since these products are “functionally critical” in the production and activation of incendiary devices, Spain would have known that these components would not be used for civilian industrial production but to support military operations.
The group said that Spain can’t claim ignorance, citing media coverage and public political debate within Spain at the time of the sale. According to international law, providing such material amounts to aiding and abetting war crimes, especially when the risks were as obvious as they were at the time.
Shurat HaDin also argued that Iran’s view of Spain’s policy as helpful to its cause, reflected in missiles bearing Sánchez’s image and thanking him for his support, provides another piece of evidence against Spain.
Shurat HaDin called for an investigation into Sánchez and other Spanish officials, who have yet to publicly respond.