Israel’s ambassador to Portugal, Dor Shapira, defended Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa at a vigil in Lisbon on Tuesday when he told a Palestinian representative that it was some Palestinians who had provoked a new conflict in the Gaza Strip.
“He [Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa] told the truth. They [palestinianos] started the war on October 7. That’s what he said and I don’t understand the problem,” the diplomat told Luse on the sidelines of a vigil organized by the Israeli community of Lisbon in Plaza Municipio in the Portuguese capital over the controversy involving the Portuguese president.
During a visit to the diplomatic bazaar at the Lisbon Congress Center on Friday, the head of state told the head of the Palestinian diplomatic mission in Portugal that some Palestinians “should not have started” this war with Israel and advised them to be moderate. and peaceful.