The diplomatic crisis between Israel and Spain, far from being resolved, has gone one step further. The Israeli Foreign Minister, So Cohen, has called its ambassador in Madrid, Rodica Radian-Gordon, for consultations, in reaction to the statements of the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, this Thursday on TVE. In addition, Cohen has once again summoned the Spanish ambassador in Tel Aviv, Ana Sálomon, for a “reprimand” for what he has described as “shameful” statementsfor which Sánchez expressed his doubts that Israel is respecting international humanitarian law in its offensive on Gaza.
President Sánchez expressed during an interview with public television that Israel must be told that it has to “sustain its actions based on international humanitarian law” and, he added, that according to “the images we are seeing and the growing number, especially of boys and girls who are dying, I have serious doubts that they are complying with that international humanitarian law.
Cohen’s response, through the social network The Israeli minister reiterated: “Israel acts and will continue to act according to international law and we will continue the war until the release of all those kidnapped and the elimination of Hamas in Gaza.”
A statement from the Israeli Government released at noon announced that the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, gave instructions to the Foreign Minister, Eli Cohen, to call the Spanish ambassador to Israel, Ana Sálomon Pérez “for a reprimand conversation after the shameful statement by the head of the Spanish Government on the day in which Hamas terrorists murder Israelis in our capital, Jerusalem,” reports Sal Emergui from Jerusalem.
The Israeli leader was referring to the attack this Thursday morning at a bus station at the entrance to Jerusalem. Two Palestinians shot dead Rabbi Elimelech Wasserman (73), Hannah Ifergan (67) and Livia Dickman (24), who was pregnant, and wounded a dozen people before being killed. The attack has been claimed by Hamas.