Spain protests to Israel after new attack against Blue Helmets in southern Lebanon spain

This Friday, the Foreign Ministry summoned the charge of the Israeli Embassy in Spain (UNIFIL, its acronym in Spanish English) after Israeli troops attacked UN peacekeepers in Lebanon for the second consecutive day. In which Spain has 670 blue helmets. The Spanish diplomacy thus follows the step taken this morning by the French and Italian governments, the two other European countries that have troops in the south of Lebanon, who have called their respective ambassadors in their capitals to complain about this aggression.

Foreign Affairs sources indicated, “This morning, Spain called the Charge d’Affaires of the Israeli Embassy to protest the unjustified attacks by the Israeli military on UNIFIL positions and recent comments about Spain and the Spanish.” This last allusion refers to a statement made public last weekend by the Israeli Foreign Ministry in which it said that Spain “has become a haven for sowing hatred and inciting the destruction of Israel”, a criticism which Minister José Manuel Alberes called “out ” Agreed. Of the place.”

Foreign Affairs has summoned the chargé d’affaires because the new Israeli ambassador Zvi Vapani has not yet taken up his post and the position of head of the Israeli embassy in Madrid is vacant Last May, Benjamin Netanyahu’s government called for consultations Was to his predecessor, Rodica Radian-Gordon.

Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto has announced that in a conversation with his Israeli counterpart Yoav Galant last Thursday, he had asked him a direct question. “What will happen next time? Do we have to respond?”, a question which he himself identified as “provocative” but with which he wanted to underline the “seriousness of the events”. As reported by Efe, Crosetto emphasized that There is no “military justification” for these attacks and it has been made clear that “all” parties must respect the inviolability of the UN mission.