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<div id="divNewsDatetime">PressTV &#8211;  Fri Feb 25, 2011 7:41AM</div>
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<div id="divImageDesc"><em>Israeli President Shimon Peres during his meeting with Spanish Prime Minister Luis Zapatero</em></div>
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<div id="divLead">Hundreds  of demonstrators in Spain have protested a visit by Israeli President  Shimon Peres, calling for the immediate lifing of the siege on Gaza by  the Tel Aviv regime.</div>
<p>Human rights associations and Palestinian living in Madrid were  among the protesters gathered in front of the ministry of foreign  affairs on Thursday, calling on the EU to impose sanctions on the regime  and to boycott Israeli companies.</p>
<p>Protesters also demanded that Peres testify in court and be held  accountable for last May&#8217;s deadly Israeli attack on the Gaza-bound  freedom Flotilla and its massive violations of human rights against the  Palestinian people, a Press TV correspondent reported.</p>
<p>Spain&#8217;s Prime Minister Luis Rodriguez Zapatero told Peres that his  country was ready to expand strategic ties with Israel beyond issues  regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.</p>
<p>Demonstrators were chanting slogans such as “Peres the murderer,” “free Palestine” and “Zapatero accomplice of a criminal.”</p>
<p>The Israeli regime has continued to expand its settlements while  Palestinians are confined to limited areas in their own country within  the Apartheid wall.</p>
<p>Israel has been persistently proceeding with the demolition of  Palestinian structures and construction of its settlements in the  occupied territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds (Jerusalem).</p>
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