Foreign Relations

Influencers Blame Israel for Spain's Ceuta Crisis Without Evidence

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Courtroom-sketch editorial illustration of a Spanish border guard facing a large crowd climbing from the shoreline into Ceuta beside the concrete border wall.

Several anti-Israel social-media figures blamed Israel for mass border crossings into Spain's Ceuta and Melilla enclaves, citing a 2019 post by Yair Netanyahu as purported proof. Candace Owens, Ana Alcalde and Alex Jones circulated versions of the claim, while Spanish Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said authorities had no intelligence indicating Morocco organized the influx. Spanish officials said crossings into Ceuta stopped overnight and most migrants returned to Morocco. Police began installing a 500-meter floating barrier after the mass crossing, which killed at least 67 people.

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