Israel affirmed this Thursday that the decision of Spain, Ireland and Norway to recognize Palestine as a State will have “serious consequences” on its relations with those countries.
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“There will be additional serious consequences for (Israel’s) relations with those countries, following the decision they made” this Wednesday, announcing that they will recognize Palestine as a State as of May 28, said Jacob Blitstein, the director general of the foreign ministry. Israeli in a statement.
The video, about three minutes long, shows the women sitting on the ground, some with bloody faces, and their hands tied after their capture at the Nahal Oz base.
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“The recognition of their governments does not promote peace and gives a boost to Hamas and makes it even more difficult to promote an agreement for the release of hostages,” the Israeli diplomat insisted.
Israel summoned the three ambassadors this Wednesday for a “reprimand conversation,” in addition to call his envoys to Madrid, Dublin and Oslo for consultations, after these Executives announced almost simultaneously their intention to recognize the Palestinian State.
Foreign Minister Israel Katz considered the decision a “reward to the Hamas terrorists”, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that “evil cannot be given a State.”
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“The images circulating in the Hebrew media are fragmented, have been manipulated and the authenticity of what they contain cannot be confirmed,” they criticize in a statement, a day after the relatives of these young soldiers decided to send these images to the press.
The Islamist organization denounces that Israel has made “a deliberate selection of images and clips” to reinforce its narrative about the alleged attacks on kidnapped women by Palestinian militants.
Does recognition have implications?
Voices of analysis agree that the recognition of the Palestinian State is more of a symbolic act than a legal one, since, for example, Spain, Ireland and Norway already maintain relations with the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) of President Mahmoud Abbas and have diplomatic offices in East Jerusalem, which function as an embassy for Palestine.
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“It has no greater significance in the immediate term since the Palestinian State as such does not exist. What there is is a Palestinian National Authority (PNA) devoid of powers and autonomy and that in theory should govern over two territories: the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, but in Gaza the ANP has not existed for years,” Ignacio Gutiérrez de Terán, professor and director of the Department of Arab and Islamic Studies and Oriental Studies at the Autonomous University of Madrid, told this newspaper.
Currently, more than 140 countries recognize the Palestinian State, eight of them European – Bulgaria, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary, Cyprus and Sweden – as well as almost all Arab countries or those historically linked to the non-aligned movement. .
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The president of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez, who visited several countries to gather support for recognition, stated that The move would bolster efforts to relaunch a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu considered the initiative “a reward for terrorism” that “will not bring peace.”
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