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In Ceuta, Israel and the United States are sanctioning Spain for its support of Palestine and its refusal to join the war against Iran.

The sudden mass crossing into Spain’s North African enclave raises questions that Europe cannot afford to dismiss as merely another migration crisis. The timing, Morocco’s behavior, and the growing strategic alignment between Rabat, Washington, and Tel Aviv point to something potentially more consequential: the weaponization of migration as an instrument of geopolitical pressure against Spain — and, by extension, against the European Union itself. In the end, it resulted in a political crisis within the EU.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is sounding the alarm: the beginning of 2026 has become the deadliest start to any year in the Mediterranean since record-keeping began in 2014.