The spokesperson for the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Lior Haiat, has criticized Sánchez’s intentions and the declaration that Spain, Ireland, Malta and Slovenia signed on Friday in which they showed their “willingness to recognize Palestine.”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel ha recriminated this Monday to the president of the Spanish governmentPedro Sánchez, his declared intention to recognize the Palestinian State, because, in his opinion, it is equivalent to giving “a reward to terrorism.”
“This recognition after the massacre of October 7 sends the message to Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist organizations that the murderous terrorist attacks against Israelis will be reciprocated with political gestures towards the Palestinians,” the Ministry’s spokesman said in a statement this Monday, Lior Haiat.
Sánchez, who had advanced at the beginning of March his intention to recognize the Palestinian State in this legislature, outside the European Union (EU), participated last Friday in a meeting with the prime ministers of Ireland, Malta and Slovenia in Brussels where they discussed their “willingness to recognize Palestine,” according to a later joint statement.
In the opinion of the Israeli spokesman, “the only way to fight Palestinian terrorism is to unequivocally condemn Hamas for the war crimes, crimes against humanity and sexual crimes it committed during the October 7 attack and continues to commit, and to make an explicit call to the release of all the hostages”.
“A resolution of the conflict will only be possible through direct negotiations between the parties,” adds the statement, in which it considers that the intention of these European countries “only distances the achievement of a resolution and increases regional instability.”
Are nine the EU countries who already recognize Palestinian state: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Slovakia, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, all of them since 1988, and the vast majority due to their former membership in the Soviet Union. In addition, Sweden recognized Palestine in 2014 and 13 others have a diplomatic office in East Jerusalem or Ramallah, including Spain.
Source: Eitb
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