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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sam Jones in Madrid

Spanish prime minister says he doubts Israel is respecting international law

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.
Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, left, with Spain's prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, during their meeting in Jerulasem on 23 November. Photograph: Borja Puig de la Bellacasa/La Moncloa/AFP/Getty Images

The Israeli government has recalled its ambassador in Madrid and said it will be reprimanding Spain’s top diplomat in Tel Aviv after the Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, said he had “genuine doubts” about whether Israel was complying with international humanitarian law in its offensive in Gaza.

Sánchez’s latest remarks came a week after he caused a diplomatic spat by using a visit to Israel to urge it to rethink its operations in Gaza, claiming its response to Hamas’s atrocitieson 7 October could not “imply the deaths of innocent civilians, including thousands of children”.

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