WORLD NEWS: Netanyahu accuses Spain of waging a “diplomatic war” against Israel and warns that “it will pay a price for it” | International
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Israel has given a new twist in the spiral of retaliation against Spain and accuses the Government of Pedro Sánchez of “waging a diplomatic war” for which “it will pay a price”, in the words of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a statement broadcast by video this Friday. The Israeli Executive has ordered the expel of the Spanish representatives in the multinational body Civil and Military Coordination Center (CMCC), which supervises the ceasefire reached in the Gaza Strip in October last year. “Whoever attacks the State of Israel, and not the terrorist regimes [en alusión a Irán] “It will not be our partner in the region,” warned Netanyahu, who accused the Spanish Government of defaming Israeli soldiers in recent conflicts.*Statement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu*Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this afternoon (Friday, April 10, 2026) [translated from Hebrew]:”Israel will not remain silent in the face of those who attack us. Spain has defamed our heroes, the soldiers of the IDF, the… pic.twitter.com/9O13VKAsZE— Government Press Office (@GPOIsrael) April 10, 2026 The Israeli Foreign Minister, Gideon Saar, has followed Netanyahu’s instructions. “The Government of Pedro Sánchez has such a marked anti-Israeli bias,” has said, “that it has lost all capacity to serve as a useful actor in the implementation of the president’s peace plan [de Estados Unidos, Donald] Trump and in the FCCC, which operates within the framework of said plan.” His statement was also published this Friday by the Hebrew press, which stated that Spain had been notified of the decision and that the United States was informed in advance. Saar has also referred to the “anti-Israeli obsession” of the Spanish Executive and its policy during the war between the United States and Israel against Iran to justify the veto of Spanish participants in the FCCC, based in the Israeli town of Kiryat. Gat, located 25 kilometers northeast of the border with Gaza. Military personnel from the United States and Israel monitor the ceasefire in Gaza through giant screens and remote control systems, together with a coalition made up of twenty countries, including Spain, which has a symbolic representation in it. “The FCCC is designed to support stabilization efforts. “US military personnel will not be deployed in Gaza, but will help facilitate the flow of humanitarian, logistical and security assistance from their international counterparts to the Strip,” the US Army’s Central Command detailed in October, when it began operating, in a statement cited by the Efe agency. Last January, foreign diplomats informed the Reuters agency that several representatives of European countries have not returned to the FCCC since the beginning of this year, as they question the purpose of the center. “Everyone thinks it is a disaster, but there is no alternative,” revealed a Western diplomat. In a broad editorial published precisely this Friday, the conservative newspaper The Jerusalem Post affirms that Spain is disappointing the West and weakening Europe’s diplomatic position by “hindering allied operations, lowering relations with Israel and reestablishing ties with Tehran.” In line with statements from the Spanish right and extreme right, the Israeli newspaper accuses President Sánchez of “having chosen a shameful role” in the war with Iran. It also highlights intensified pressure that has exerted on Israel by demanding that the European Union suspend the association agreement with the Jewish State. In parallel, the Israeli Government announced this Friday that the Argentine president, Javier Milei, has been invited to light the torch in the official ceremony that will begin the celebrations of the Independence Day of the Jewish State on the 21st. A man observes the damage to a building after being attacked by an Israeli missile, this FridayAdnan Abidi (REUTERS)Escalation in the disputeThe Israeli decision is The latest escalation in the diplomatic dispute with Madrid. It comes after Spain announced the reopening of its Embassy in Iran, after the ceasefire agreed with the United States, and the incident in which the Spanish blue helmet of the United Nations Force for Lebanon (Unifil) Following the announcement that Spain would not allow entry into its airspace or territorial waters to planes or ships transporting weapons to Israel, Minister Saar prohibited the entry of Spanish ministers from the left-wing coalition. This Thursday, the Israeli minister of the Diaspora and Fight against Antisemitism, Amichai Chikli, called Sánchez a “complete and absolute nobody”, after the president criticized Israel’s offensive in Lebanon “Many European leaders are trapped in a deep moral vertigo that is dragging their nations towards the abyss. But in your case, this is not confusion. It is alignment. A deliberate alignment with Iran, with Hamas, with Hezbollah, with pure evil. There are no words to describe my contempt for you,” Chikli wrote in שיקלי – Amichai Chikli (@AmichaiChikli) April 9, 2026 President Pedro Sánchez has again urged EU members this Friday to suspend the association agreement with Israel in the face of the “flagrant violations of international humanitarian law that are being committed.” “Let us not allow a new Gaza in Lebanon,” he said during his speech at the European Pulse Forum in Barcelona. President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, closes the European Pulse Forum at the Cosmocaixa Barcelona, this Friday. GIANLUCA BATTISTA Before Netanyahu’s statements became known, the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, had called the words of Minister Amichai Chikli “absurd and slanderous.” In statements to TVE this Friday, Albares stressed that Spain has condemned the human rights violations by the Tehran regime and has. approved all the sanctions packages approved by the EU. But it has accused Israel of “trying to ruin” the talks between the United States and Iran to end the war, even before they sit down this Saturday in Islamabad, with its attacks on Lebanon.
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