Israel plans to summon the ambassadors of countries that supported full UN membership for Palestine for a protest discussion on Sunday, according to a statement from a foreign ministry spokesperson.
This decision follows the US’ veto of the Palestinian membership proposal earlier in the week, leading the Palestinian Authority to reconsider its ties with the U.S.
In a recent UN Security Council vote, 12 countries endorsed the resolution for full Palestinian membership, while Britain and Switzerland chose to abstain, and only the U.S. opposed the resolution.
Oren Marmorstein, the Israeli foreign ministry spokesman, announced that ambassadors from countries like France, Japan, South Korea, Malta, the Slovak Republic, and Ecuador would be called in for a firm protest on Sunday.
He indicated that similar protests would be directed at other supporting nations as well.
Marmorstein emphasized that the message to the ambassadors would highlight Israel’s view that acknowledging a Palestinian state, especially following the October 7 incident described as a massacre, would effectively reward acts of terrorism.
The resolution in question had aimed to upgrade Palestine from a “non-member observer state”—a status held since 2012—to a full member state of the United Nations, a stance already supported by 137 of the 193 UN member states.
