Spain and Israel are experiencing a diplomatic crisis that adds new chapters every week. This Thursday, again, Israel 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. This Friday in Dubai, on the occasion of the COP celebration, the climate summit, Sánchez and the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, agree. In principle no type of contact is planned, as a parallel meeting, beyond the fact that both are present in the leaders’ family photo. The Government does not believe that the diplomatic conflict has escalated nor that Israel has broken relations with Spain with its decision.
A week ago, Sánchez visited Israel, Palestine and Egypt on his first official trip after being sworn in as president. There he met with Herzog and Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to whom he warned Israel that it must “comply with international law.” And remembering Spain’s experience with ETA he warned that Terrorism “cannot be eradicated with the use of force alone”. “It must respect international law. The response cannot involve the death of innocent people in Gaza, including thousands of children,” she said in a thoughtful statement he read.
From the Rafah border crossing, in a staging and a speech that infuriated Israel, Sánchez accentuated his message: “I reiterated Israel’s right to defend itself but within the parameters and limitations imposed by international humanitarian law. And it is not “The indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians, including thousands of children, is completely unacceptable.”
A message held this Thursday in a interview on TVEin which he considered that Israel must be told that it has to “sustain their actions based on international humanitarian law” and, 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 this international humanitarian law.”
This Thursday, after the interview with the President of the Government, the Israeli Foreign Minister, Eli Cohen, called his 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 described as “shameful” statements, for which Sánchez showed his doubts that Israel is respecting international humanitarian law. in its offensive on Gaza.