ISTANBUL (Dispatches) -- A senior leader of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas on Saturday called on Muslims around the world to besiege U.S. and Israeli embassies as part of their campaign to force an end to the aggression on Gaza.
Khaled Meshaal, a former Hamas chief who currently leads the group’s diaspora office, said the Zionist regime is continuing to commit crimes in Gaza while relying on U.S. support.
“We call on our Muslim ummah to continue their protest and rage for this aggression to stop and to besiege the embassies of the U.S. and the Zionist regime like a storm,” said Meshaal while addressing a conference on Palestine here.
He said the Palestinians are on the cusp of victory in their battle against the Israeli regime in Gaza.
The Palestinian resistance leader said that the Zionist regime is losing confidence after nearly eight months of war in Gaza while resistance groups are in a good condition and are regrouping themselves in various parts of the Palestinian territory.
“We are in a historic moment to defeat Israel and to dismantle the Zionist project,” Meshaal said.
The appeal to Muslims came amid rising pro-Palestine sentiments in non-Muslim countries. 
On Friday, Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said Spainhad decided to ban ships carrying weapons for Israel from docking at its ports, a day after the country denied a vessel permission to call at a southeastern port.
Albares said Spain’s decision not to authorize ships carrying weapons for Occupied Palestine to call at its ports comes as the country doesn’t “want to contribute to war.”
He said the ship that was denied access to a Spanish port on Thursday was the first such vessel to be blocked.
Albares noted that the refusal was consistent with the government’s decision to suspend weapon export licenses to Israel after it launched the war on Gaza in October.
Transport Minister Oscar Puente on Thursday said Marianne Danica, an Israel-bound ship carrying arms, had requested permission to call at the port of Cartagena on May 21.
According to El Pais newspaper, the Danish-flagged ship is carrying 27 tonnes of explosive material from India to the port of Haifa in the occupied territories.
Spain has been one of Europe’s most critical voices about Israel’s war on Gaza and is working to encourage other European capitals to recognize Palestine as a state.
Madrid halted weapons sales to Israel after the start of the Israeli war on Gaza.