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A Palestinian in Spain’s new cabinet

Pro-Palestine Minister Ione Belarra of Spain has been removed from her position.

Minister Ione Belarra has been removed from her position as head of the social rights cabinet in Spain during a cabinet change for unknown reasons, but her supporters suspect her support for Palestine and calls for Israel’s Netanyahu to be tried for war crimes could be why.


However, Pedro Sanchez gave a seat in the cabinet to a Palestinian origin minister, namely Sira Rego. With Palestinian roots – her father and brother live in the West Bank, in the middle of the current war that Israel has been fighting since the Hamas attack on October 7 – the new IU minister Born in Valencia, she lived part of his childhood in Palestine until he settled in the Madrid municipality of Rivas Vaciamadrid.

Rego will be the new minister of youth and children in the cabinet.

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