Israel summons Spanish ambassador to a dressing down after Spain’s left-wing Prime Minister calls Israel a “genocidal state,” claims trade with Israel has been ended
Spain’s prime minister on Wednesday called Israel a “genocidal state,” sparking a new diplomatic row with Israel amid already tense relations between the two countries.
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, Secretary General of the left-wing Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, made the comments during a question and answer session in the lower chamber of the Spanish Parliament – the Congress of Deputies.
During the session, MP Gabriel Rufian of the Republican Left of Catalonia party, accused Sanchez’s government of maintaining trade ties with Israel, calling Israel the “genocidal state.”