The Israeli Foreign Minister, Israel Katz, announced this Friday that he has ordered to cut the connection between the Spanish Embassy in Tel Aviv and the Palestinians, as well as prohibit the Spanish consulate in Jerusalem from “providing services to Palestinians”. Furthermore, it charges against Yolanda Diaz for stating that “Palestine will be free from the river to the sea”.

Katz has explained through his social networks that the reason for this decision is the recognition of the Palestinian State by Spain, but also what he calls an “anti-Semitic call” by the second vice president of the Government. So, the diplomatic crisis is getting worseas Israel continues its offensive in Loopwhere has already killed 35,800 people.

The Israeli minister has harshly attacked Díaz, whom he has branded as “ignorant and hateful”. “If you want to understand what radical Islam really seeks, you should study the 700 years of Islamic rule in Al-Andalus, today Spain,” he added, in a tweet in which he also mentions the leader of the Spanish opposition, Alberto Núñez Feijóo.

The words of the Minister of Labor, also on Thursday, were received with “total rejection” by the Israeli ambassador to Spain, Rodica Radian-Gordon, who asserted through her social networks that the pro-Palestinian slogan used by Díaz is a “Hamas motto”. “This expression is a clear call for the elimination of Israelpromoting hatred and violence,” he asserted.

“Anti-Semitic proclamations can have no place in a democratic society, and it is absolutely intolerable that they have been uttered by a vice president of the government,” added the head of the Israeli diplomatic legation, through a message on the social network ‘X’.

Precisely, Israel has recalled its ambassador for consultations in our country, after this week the President of the Government, Pedro Sanchezwill announce in Congress that Spain will recognize the Palestinian state next Tuesday.

“I regret having to return to Israel for a few vain decisions adopted by the Spanish Government, which will not contribute to peace and security in the Middle East, nor will they facilitate the release of our 128 kidnapped people still in the hands of Hamas,” Radian-Gordon said in a tweet this Friday.

The decision of the Spanish Executive has provoked an angry response from the Israeli Government of Benjamin Netanyahuwhich considers this recognition, also announced by Ireland and Norwaya “prize” for terrorism. In the last few hours, in fact, the ambassadors of these three countries in Israel were summoned to show them an “unpublished video” of the October 7 attacks as a reprimand.