The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned the Israeli ambassador to Spain after the accusations launched this Friday by the diplomacy of that country against the president of the GovernmentPedro Sánchez, as diplomatic sources have confirmed to EFE.

The summons to the Israeli ambassador to Spain, Rodrica Radian-Gordon, occurs in response to the gesture of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of that country, which, early this afternoon, summoned the ambassadors of Spain and Belgium by the statements of the president of the Spanish Government and the Belgian Prime Minister, Alexander De Croo, in Egypt, who has considered a “support for terrorism“.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, has responded that these accusations are “totally false and unacceptable“and has announced that Spain will give a response”timely“, which has been specified for now in this call to the ambassador.

For Albares, the accusations of the Government of Israel “are especially serious“because they are directed against the current president of the EU and the prime minister of the country that will occupy the Presidency of the EU as of January 1. The minister recalled that, since October 7, the day of the attack initial, the president of the Government “did not hesitate to condemn the terrorist attack of Hamas and make it very clear that it does not represent the Palestinian people and is just a terrorist organization.

Spain “will make its own decisions”

Furthermore, the Government has always called for “unconditional and immediate release of all hostages“and supported the right of the Israeli State to defend itself from this terrorist attack, as Sánchez conveyed during his trip to Israel. For the minister, “this is not incompatible” with the message that the president conveyed during his trip to Israel, Palestine and Egypt, that “this right to defend itself must be done within scrupulous respect for international humanitarian law.”

On the last stop of his tour of Israel and Palestine, at the Rafah border crossing, between Gaza and Egypt, Sánchez showed himself this Friday firm with the Spanish proposal to recognize sovereignty of a Palestinian State and has warned that if the European Union does not reach an agreement, Spain “will make its own decisions.”

In the last act of his visit to the Middle East together with the Belgian Prime Minister, Alexander de Croo, he reiterated his proposal on the recognition of the two States, Israel and Palestine. “The time has come for the international community and the European Union to once and for all recognize the State of Palestine. It is something that is worthwhile, that is important enough and that the EU has to do together. But if this This is not the case, Spain will make its own decisions,” he added.