Gaza, Rafah crossing remains to be closed. Madrid withdraws ambassador to Israel | EUROtoday

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The Spanish authorities has organized the formal revocation of the ambassador to IsraelAna Salomon, in workplace since 2021 and already referred to as to consultations in September 2025, after diplomatic tensions with Benjamin Netanyahu’s authorities adopted by the popularity of the State of Palestine by Madrid in April two years in the past. The provision was printed within the Official State Bulletin and was adopted on the proposal of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, with a decision of the Council of Ministers on Tuesday 10 March. The decree, signed by King Felipe VI, thanks the diplomat for the “services provided”.

the El Pais web site specifies that the choice, taken within the final council of ministers, includes the discount of Spanish illustration on the stage of cost d’affaires, in reciprocity with what has already been carried out by Israel in its embassy in Madrid. Salomon was recalled for consultations final September and has been in Spain since then. The resolution, which represents a brand new step within the diplomatic escalation between the 2 nationsimplies that Spain must appoint a brand new ambassador and search the approval of the Israeli authorities if and when it needs to totally re-establish diplomatic relations.

Hamas in the meantime expressed its “congratulations to our brothers in the Islamic Republic of Iran on the occasion of the election of Mojtaba Khamenei as leader of the Islamic Revolution”. In a press release, Hamas spokesman in Gaza, Hazem Qassem, defined that the group “wished him success in realizing the hopes of the Iranian people to defeat Israeli-American aggression and prevent arrogant forces from imposing their will on Iran.”

Meanwhile, on the twelfth day of the battle in opposition to Iran, Israel continues to maintain the Rafah crossing closed. A humanitarian assist convoy aimed on the more and more exhausted inhabitants of the Gaza Strip was diverted to the Kerem Shalom crossing in preparation for its entry into Gaza. This was reported by an Egyptian safety supply, specifying that the persevering with closure of the Rafah crossing is stopping the transit of wounded, injured and sick Palestinians anticipated in Egyptian hospitals to obtain therapy, and is hindering the return to Gaza of Palestinians stranded in Egypt.

Oxfam’s grievance

«The humanitarian state of affairs in Lebanon dangers worsening – and is already near collapse – as a result of bombings and the Israeli invasion, which is inflicting new and big mass displacements with half 1,000,000 individuals pressured to desert their houses and over 117 thousand who’ve discovered shelter in shelters». This is the alarm raised right this moment by Oxfam within the face of the context of rising instability and violence that has effects on it Lebanon and the complete Middle East. Starting from Gaza, with the costs of gasoline and fundamental requirements skyrocketing, worsening a catastrophic humanitarian state of affairs, with the inhabitants already disadvantaged of the whole lot: in some areas of Gaza City in the mean time we survive on simply 2 liters of water per particular person per day, whereas meals and important provides are nearly unimaginable to seek out in native markets. “The expansion of the Israeli occupation and the ongoing bombings of Lebanon are already having devastating consequences on the survival of the most vulnerable sections of a population that had not yet recovered from the last wave of violence,” stated Paolo Pezzati, spokesperson for humanitarian crises of Oxfam Italy. «Once once more, total households are pressured to desert their houses beneath the bombings». The danger at this second is that the humanitarian penalties of the escalation lengthen effectively past the Lebanese borders, as a result of inertia of the worldwide neighborhood”, continued Pezzati. «The first to pay the price will be 60 million people who already depend on humanitarian aid to survive. This new escalation is already putting pressure on the response system which could run aground, due to the increase in fuel prices, the difficulties in obtaining goods and the countless physical and bureaucratic impediments. As soon as possible we should implement everything necessary to avoid a real health and socio-economic collapse”, warns Oxfam.