– Scandalous and indecent.
That is how Spanish International Minister José Manuel Albares characterizes a video that Israeli International Minister Israel Katz posted on X/Twitter on Sunday, in line with Reuters.
The video was posted a couple of days following Norway, Spain and Eire introduced on Wednesday that they’ll acknowledge Palestine as a separate state.
Flamenco and warfare
Underneath the headline “Hamas: Thanks, Spain”, pictures of a pair dancing to languid flamenco rhythms are blended with pictures of Hamas fighters and other people fleeing the October 7 assault.
– We won’t enable ourselves to be provoked. However that is scandalous as a result of the entire world is aware of, together with my colleague in Israel, that Spain has condemned the Hamas assault from the primary second, says Albares.
He believes it’s certainly one of Spain’s nationwide cultural symbols that Israel is now stepping on.
Each Spain’s Protection Minister Margarita Robles and Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Diaz have in latest days characterised Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip as genocide.
Known as onto the carpet
Eire, for its half, reacts strongly to the truth that following the announcement, Israel known as the Irish ambassador to the nation, Sonya McGuinness, onto the carpet and gave her a pointy reprimand. Because the assembly started, McGuinness was proven a video clip allegedly taken of the Hamas assault on 7 October.
– I discover this utterly unacceptable. That is far outdoors the norm for a way diplomats are handled in any nation, mentioned Eire’s Deputy Prime Minister Micheál Martin on Saturday, in line with DPA.
The footage was additionally proven to the Norwegian and Spanish ambassadors, who had been summoned to the carpet on the Israeli International Ministry similtaneously McGuinness.
Along with the reprimand, Israel has responded to the Norwegian recognition by withholding Palestinian tax cash that has been partly below Norwegian management.
In accordance with Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa, Israel will now use the cash to finance the Israeli victims from the bloodbath in October.
– It’s absurd, as a result of you then punish utterly different Palestinians for the mass homicide. It makes zero sense, says Eide to VG.
On Monday morning, Spain, Norway and Eire will maintain a joint press convention in Brussels on the popularity of Palestine. The popularity formally comes into impact on Tuesday.
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2024-05-26 23:03:33
