Jerusalem:
Israel will summon ambassadors from countries that voted for Palestine’s full UN membership “for a protest talk” on Sunday, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
The decision came after the Palestinian Authority said it would “reconsider” its relationship with the United States, after Washington vetoed the Palestinian membership offer earlier this week.
Thursday’s vote saw 12 countries on the UN Security Council support a resolution recommending full membership for Palestine 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 to a protest conversation the ambassadors of countries that voted in the Security Council in favor of improving the status of Palestinians at 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 lodged with them,” he said in an X post.
“An identical protest will be lodged with other countries,” he said.
“The unequivocal message that will be delivered to the ambassadors: a political gesture to the Palestinians and a call for the recognition of a Palestinian state – six months after the October 7th massacre – is a reward for terrorism.”
The draft resolution called for a recommendation to the General Assembly “that the State of Palestine be admitted as a member of the United Nations” in place of its current status as a “non-member observer state”, which it has maintained since 2012.
The majority of the UN’s 193 member states – 137, according to a Palestinian count – have recognized a Palestinian state.
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