According to a spokesman for the foreign ministry, Israel will call ambassadors of nations that supported full Palestinian UN membership “for a protest talk” on Sunday.
Following Washington’s veto of the Palestinian membership bid earlier this week, the Palestinian Authority declared that it would “reconsider” its relationship with the United States.
Twelve UN Security Council members supported a resolution calling for full Palestinian membership on Thursday; two, Switzerland and Britain, abstained.
The only country to vote against the resolution, using its veto power, was the United States, Israel’s most steadfast ally.
On Saturday, Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Oren Marmorstein said the ministry “will summon for a protest talk the ambassadors of the countries that voted in the Security Council in favour of upgrading the status of the Palestinians in 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 presented to them,” he said in a post on X.
“An identical protest will be presented to additional countries,” he said.
“The unambiguous message that will be delivered to the ambassadors: A political gesture to the Palestinians and a call to recognise a Palestinian state – six months after the October 7 massacre – is a prize for terrorism.”
The draft resolution proposed to replace the State of Palestine’s current status as a “non-member observer state,” which it has held since 2012, with a recommendation to the General Assembly “that the State of Palestine be admitted to membership of the United Nations.”
According to a Palestinian count, 137 out of the 193 member states of the UN have acknowledged the existence of a Palestinian state.
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