Spanish President Pedro Sánchez will make an institutional statement at 8:30 am. Since the three countries announced their intentions, Israel has withdrawn its ambassadors and banned the Spanish consulate in the West Bank from providing services to Palestinians from June 1.
Spain, together with Ireland and Norway, will today recognition of the Palestinian statedespite threats from Israel. In particular, the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, will appear in Moncloa 8:30 am to make one institutional statement on the recognition of the state of Palestine. The Council of Ministers will then approve the recognition from 9:30 am.
Since the three countries made the announcement last Wednesday, the Israeli government has withdrawn its ambassadors from Spain, Ireland and Norway. In addition, the Israeli Foreign Ministry has formalized the ban on the Spanish Consulate in Jerusalem from providing consular services to Palestinians “living under the Palestinian Authority,” i.e. in the occupied West Bank, from June 1.
Amid rising diplomatic tensions, the exchange of statements between the governments of Spain and Israel continues. Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz has repeatedly warned in the past week that recognition of Palestinian statehood by Spain, Ireland and Norway would have “even more serious consequences.”
One day after the announcement by the Spanish government, Sumar leader and Vice President of the Executive Branch, Yolanda Díaz, published a video on her social networks in support of the recognition of the Palestinian State, in which she declared: “Palestine will be free are from the river to the sea,” a motto of the Palestinian cause that Israel considers anti-Semitic.
In addition, the government of Israel released three videos, one for each of the countries, showing Hamas thanking Ireland, Spain and Norway for the step taken. In the case of Spain, for example, the video alternates images of flamenco with those of the Hamas attack on October 7. Some videos that Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares has described as “horrendous.” “No one will intimidate us,” he added.
Yesterday, Monday, the government of Israel threatened the Spanish executive with “harming” those who “harmed” them and stressed that “the times of the Inquisition are over,” in a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in which they also order to ban the Spanish consulate in Jerusalem from providing services to Palestinians.
“The days of the Inquisition are over. Today the Jewish people have a sovereign and independent state, and no one will force us to convert our religion or threaten our existence: we will harm anyone who harms us,” said the Israeli Foreign Minister. Israel Katz, in a post published on the social network X.
Katz affirms that Israel “will not remain silent in the face of a government that rewards terrorism and whose leaders, Pedro Sánchez and Yolanda Díaz, chant the anti-Semitic slogan: ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.’” “Those who reward Hamas and trying to establish a Palestinian terrorist state will have no contact with the Palestinians,” he added.
Source: EITB
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