00:00Verifying claims that Spain sent humanitarian aid in bad condition to Gaza.
00:10On the 1st of August, Spain, along with Germany, France, the UAE and Jordan, airdropped food
00:16and medical supplies into the Gaza Strip.
00:19Spain provided 12 tonnes of aid, dropped using 24 parachutes.
00:24This included 5,500 food rations designed to feed 11,000 people.
00:29In this viral video shared online the following day, a young Palestinian shows a bag of humanitarian
00:35aid that bears Spanish writing and the branding of Homipsa, an Alicante-based company that provides
00:42humanitarian aid.
00:43It is, presumably, one of the bags airdropped the previous day.
00:47The Palestinian goes on to explain that the bag was dropped over the Khan Yunis area and
00:51was sold on the black market for around 75 euros.
00:56He then shows sachets covered with mould.
01:00Spanish media have also received these images of what seems to be the same aid being sold
01:05in a Gaza market.
01:07Sources on the ground told Spanish news agency EFE that the packets were being sold for the
01:11equivalent of 90 euros.
01:14The Spanish Foreign Ministry has said that all packets were sent in good condition and that
01:19the products they contained expired in June 2026.
01:23In a statement shared with Euroverify, the ministry said it was impossible to verify the
01:28origin of a package without the batch number, but that the Spanish company in question had
01:32also sold supplies to other donor countries.
01:36The ministry has also rejected other claims circulating online that the packets they sent included pork
01:41products, saying all food supplies had the halal certification.
