Israel Summons Ambassadors of Countries That Support Palestine to Become UN Members

TEL AVIV – Ministry of Foreign Affairs Israel, on Sunday (21/4/2024), he will summon the ambassadors of countries that voted to support Palestine’s full membership in the UN.

According to the ministry’s spokesman, Oren Marmorstein, the summons of foreign diplomats was to convey a protest.

It comes after the Palestinian Authority said it would reconsider its ties with the United States after Washington vetoed Palestine’s UN membership bid last week.

The vote on Thursday showed 12 countries on the UN Security Council supporting a resolution recommending full Palestinian membership in the UN and two countries—Britain and Switzerland—abstained.

Only the United States, Israel’s staunchest ally, voted against, and used its veto to block the resolution.

“The Foreign Ministry will summon the ambassadors of the countries that voted in the Security Council to upgrade Palestine’s status at the UN for protest talks,” Marmorstein said.

“The ambassadors of France, Japan, South Korea, Malta, the Slovak Republic and Ecuador will be summoned to demarche, and they will face strong protests,” he said in a posting-an di X.

“Similar protests will be carried out in other countries,” he was quoted as saying AFP.

“A clear message will be conveyed to ambassadors: A political gesture to the Palestinians and a call to recognize a Palestinian state — six months after the October 7 massacre — is a gift to terrorism,” he said.

The draft resolution calls for a recommendation to the General Assembly that the State of Palestine be accepted as a member of the UN replacing the “non-member observer state” status it has currently held since 2012.

The majority of the UN’s 193 member states—137, by Palestinian count—have recognized the State of Palestine.

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