Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Spain of hostility towards Israel, following its exclusion from a Gaza related coordination centre.
The development comes after Israel’s foreign affairs ministry announced Spain’s removal from the Civil Military Coordination Center in Kiryat Gat.
In a video message released on Friday, Netanyahu defended the decision, stating that Israel would not tolerate actions it considers hostile.
“Israel will not remain passive in the face of those who assault us.
“Spain has slandered our heroes, the soldiers of the IDF, who are the moral army in the world.
“Consequently, I have ordered the removal of Spanish representatives from the coordination center in Kiryat Gat, as Spain has consistently opted to oppose Israel.
“Anyone who attacks the State of Israel instead of the terrorist regimes, anyone who does this, will not be our ally in the future of the region.
“I refuse to tolerate this hypocrisy and hostility. I will not permit any nation to conduct a diplomatic war against us without facing an immediate consequence for it,” he said.
The move follows criticism from Spain’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, who condemned Israel’s recent military actions in Lebanon.
“His disregard for life and international law is intolerable,” Sánchez wrote on X.
Sánchez, considered one of Europe’s most vocal critics of the military operations involving the United States and Israel in the region, also called on the European Union to suspend its association agreement with Israel.
