The Belgian Prime Minister, Alexander De Croowas reaffirmed this Saturday in the speech given yesterday in Egypt about the conflict in Loop and will summon the ambassador of Israel in Belgium to clarify the accusations of that country’s diplomacy following his visit to Israel and Palestine together with the Spanish president, Pedro Sanchez.
In a message published on the social network X (formerly Twitter), De Croo urged the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahuto read the words he spoke at the border crossing in Rafah. “That’s what I stick to. No more civilian casualties”wrote the Belgian prime minister, linking to the transcript of his speech.
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In it, the Belgian Prime Minister condemned the “horror” perpetrated by Hamasreiterated Israel’s right to “defend its citizens” and called for the release of all Israeli hostages, but also called on Israel to respect international humanitarian law in its operation against terrorist attacks and to stop the “killing of civilians.”
“We cannot accept that a society is destroyed in the way that the society in Gaza is being destroyed“said the Belgian Prime Minister, who defended that the “only possible solution” It is a policy and he asked to “relaunch the talks” between the parties.
In a reaction collected by the agency Belgianthe prime minister recalled that his country has “condemned in the strongest possible way the actions of Hamas and said that Israel has the right to pursue terrorists” and pointed out that the Israeli ambassador in BelgiumIdit Rosenweig-Abu, “she will be invited to clarify the situation.”
The head of the Belgian Executive reacted in this way after the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel yesterday summoned the ambassadors of Spain and Belgium for the statements of Sánchez and De Croo in Egyptwhen considering them a “support for terrorism.”
The Spanish Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares, also rejected yesterday some accusations that he considered “totally false and unacceptable” and summoned the Israeli ambassador in Spain, Rodrica Radian-Gordon.
The President of the Spanish Government and the Belgian Prime Minister, as representatives of the rotating presidency of the EU current and incoming, respectively, visited between Wednesday and Saturday Israel, Palestine and Egypt on a tour that coincided with the first agreement for a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel since the beginning of the conflict on October 7 and during which they met, among others, with the Israeli prime minister and the president of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas.
