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SvennoJ on 26 May 2024
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Wow, after the coconut scandal in the UK, Israel does this

Spanish minister slams ‘scandalous’ Israeli flamenco video

A short video posted by Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz on the social media platform X on Sunday says “Hamas: Gracias Espana” (“Hamas: Thank you Spain”). This comes after Spain said it would recognise Palestine as a state.

“We are not going to fall into provocations. The video is scandalous and execrable,” Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares told a news conference in Brussels.

The video shows the Spanish flag then a couple dancing to flamenco music. Film of Hamas fighters is interspersed, including people fleeing during the October 7 Hamas offensive on southern Israel.

“It’s scandalous because all the world knows, including my colleague in Israel, that Spain condemned the actions of Hamas from the first moment. And execrable for the use of one of those symbols of Spanish culture,” Albares added.

Talks fail on conscription law: Israeli defence minister

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has said that the army was close to reaching an agreement on a conscription law that would see Israel’s Orthodox Jewish community compelled to submit to mandatory military service, but each political party’s adherence to its position hindered the talks.

He explained that war cabinet member Benny Gantz refused to support the conscription law before the election date was decided, adding that this is politicisation that he does not accept.

Israel committing genocide in Gaza: Human Rights Watch founder

Aryeh Neier, a long-standing Jewish human rights activist whose family fled from Nazi Germany to the United States in 1939 when he was two years old, says he has been convinced that the Israeli military is committing “genocide” in Gaza.

“Over a period of time, Israel has obstructed the delivery of humanitarian assistance to Gaza and those who have been most severely victimised are not members of Hamas,” the co-founder of Human Rights Watch told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in an interview.

Neier said men with guns often find a way to get fed, while it is vulnerable children who are severely malnourished across the enclave. “I thought that severe obstruction in the delivery of humanitarian assistance amounted to genocide.”

The humanitarian activist added that the amount of food, water, medicine and fuel that the Israeli military has allowed into Gaza since the start of the war has been “entirely inadequate”, also pointing out that the World Food Programme has said famine is under way in the Palestinian territory.