Israel to summon ambassadors of countries that voted for Palestinian UN membership | Arab News

Israel to summon ambassadors of countries that voted for Palestinian UN membership | Arab News FM: John Whitbeck writes: As reported in the brief AFP news item transmitted below, the ambassadors to Israel of Ecuador, France, Japan, Malta, "the Slovak Republic" and South Korea have been summoned to the Israeli foreign ministry "for a protest talk" in response to their insubordination in voting contrary to Israel's wishes in the UN Security Council vote on a status upgrade for the State of Palestine. Presumably, the ambassador of Slovakia will diplomatically inform the Israeli foreign ministry that, in fact, Slovenia, not Slovakia, is currently a member of the Security Council. NOTE: The mother of the "baby born prematurely after his mother was injured during Israeli bombardment" and shown in one of the photos below died of her injuries. ) https://arab.news/vexgh 21 April 2024 AFP Thursday’s vote saw 12 countries on the UN Security Council back a resolution recommending full Palestinian membership and two — Britain and Switzerland — abstain Israel has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory JERUSALEM: Israel will summon ambassadors of countries that voted for full Palestinian UN membership “for a protest talk” on Sunday, a foreign ministry spokesman said. It came after the Palestinian Authority said it would “reconsider” its relationship with the United States after Washington vetoed the Palestinian membership bid earlier this week. Thursday’s vote saw 12 countries on the UN Security Council back a resolution recommending full Palestinian membership and two — Britain and Switzerland — abstain. Only the United States, Israel’s staunchest ally, voted against, using its veto to block the resolution. On Saturday, Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Oren Marmorstein said the ministry “will summon for a protest talk the ambassadors of the countries that voted in the Security Council in favor of upgrading the status of the Palestinians in the UN.” “The ambassadors of France, Japan, South Korea, Malta, the Slovak Republic and Ecuador will be summoned tomorrow for a demarche, and a strong protest will be presented to them,” he said in a post on X. dentical protest will be presented to additional countries,” he said. “The unambiguous message that will be delivered to the ambassadors: A political gesture to the Palestinians and a call to recognize a Palestinian state — six months after the October 7 massacre — is a prize for terrorism.” The draft resolution called for recommending to the General Assembly “that the State of Palestine be admitted to membership of the United Nations” in place of its current “non-member observer state” status, which it has held since 2012. The majority of the UN’s 193 member states — 138, according to a Palestinian count — have recognized a Palestinian state.