Spanish President Pedro Sánchez will make an institutional statement at 8:30 a.m. Since the three countries announced their intentions, Israel has withdrawn its ambassadors and prohibited the Spanish Consulate in the West Bank from providing services to Palestinians as of June 1.
Spain, together with Ireland and Norway, will formalize today the recognition of the Palestinian state, despite threats from Israel. Specifically, the President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, will appear at the Moncloa at 08:30 hours to make a institutional statement on the recognition of the State of Palestine. Then, starting at 09:30 a.m., the Council of Ministers will approve the recognition.
Since the three countries made the announcement last Wednesday, the Israeli government has withdrawn its ambassadors from Spain, Ireland and Norway.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 prohibition of the Spanish Consulate in Jerusalem from providing consular services as of June 1 to Palestinians “residents under the Palestinian Authority”, that is, in the occupied West Bank.
Amid the increase in diplomatic tensions, the exchange of statements between the governments of Spain and Israel continues. The Israeli Foreign Minister, Israel Katz, has warned on several occasions this last week that the recognition of the Palestinian State by Spain, Ireland and Norway would have “even more serious consequences.”
One day after the announcement by the Government of Spain, the leader of Sumar and vice president of the Executive, Yolanda Díaz, published a video on her social networks supporting the recognition of the Palestinian State in which she stated “Palestine will be free from the river to the sea “, a motto of the Palestinian cause that Israel considers anti-Semitic.
In addition, the Government of Israel has released three videos, one for each of the countries, in which it says that Hamas thanks Ireland, Spain and Norway for the step taken. In the case of Spain, for example, the video intersperses images of flamenco with those of the Hamas attack on October 7. Some videos that the Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares has described as “execrable.” “No one is going to intimidate us,” he added.
Yesterday, Monday, the Government of Israel threatened the Spanish executive with “harming” those who “harm” them and has stressed that “the times of the Inquisition are over,” in a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in which it includes the order to prohibit 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 whoever harms us,” said the Israeli Foreign Minister , Israel Katz, in a message 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 attempt to establish a Palestinian terrorist state will have no contact with the Palestinians,” he added.
Source: Eitb
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