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Israel's Foreign Minister Israel Katz issued a strong public criticism of a key member of the Spanish government this morning.
In a video posted on social media last week, Yolanda Diaz, Spain's left-wing deputy prime minister and labour minister, used the controversial expression "Palestine will be free from the river to the sea". The director of planning for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), Sam Rose, has been speaking to the BBC's Today programme from Rafah about the air strike that killed scores of Palestinians on Sunday.
Writing in Spanish on X, Katz compared Diaz's views with the leaders of Hamas and Iran, saying they called for "the disappearance of the State of Israel and the establishment of a Palestinian Islamic terrorist state from the river to the sea". At least 45 people were killed, according to the Hamas-run health ministry, while hundreds more have been treated for severe burns, fractures and shrapnel wounds.
By not firing her and recognising a Palestinian state, Katz accused the Spanish prime minister of being complicit in inciting "in inciting the murder of the Jewish people and war crimes". Rose says there were around eight strikes on a camp and that many were killed in fires as a result. He has heard reports of "horrific shrapnel injuries”.
Israel has been strongly critical of Spain's decision to recognise Palestinian statehood, which it says will embolden Hamas. Rose raises Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu's initial description of the strike as a "mishap".
“We cannot dismiss this as a simple accident. Women and children were killed in the most gruesome, the most brutal, of circumstances," he says.
The situation in Gaza is reaching “new depths of horror and bloodshed and brutality every single day", he says.
“If this isn’t a wake up call" for the international community, "it’s hard to see what will be", he adds.
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