Israel summons Argentine ambassador to protest government vote at UN

Israel will formally express his anger against Argentina and will seek an explanation for its recent vote at the United Nations Human Rights Council to open an investigation into that country’s alleged war crimes in Gaza.

Argentine Ambassador Sergio Urribarri was summoned with diplomats from other countries than last week, and He may have to appear this Tuesday in front of the foreign ministry of that country to explain Argentine vote. Argentina’s foreign ministry said it was an “invitation” and will be received by Ephraim Modi, deputy director for Latin America and the Caribbean at the Israeli foreign ministry.

This Monday afternoon, DAIA President Jorge Knoblovits will meet Alberto Fernández for the first time and will also express the dissatisfaction of the Jewish community for this vote.

Argentina, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, China, Gabon, Indonesia, Libya, Mauritania, Mexico, Namibia, Pakistan, Russia, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan , Uzbekistan and Venezuela were among the group of 24 out of 47 countries that voted for a resolution last week in which High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said the missile attacks launched by Israel against Gaza – in which 255 Palestinians died – could constitute “war crimes”.

The resolution approved last Thursday called for the creation of a commission to investigate violations of international and humanitarian law allegedly committed in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem and Israel, in the latest episode of the conflict between both. The point is that by equating Israel’s attacks on Gaza and the terrorism of the Hamas group into international law, the worst will be taken by Israel, which is a state. No member of the European Union approved the text and there were 14 countries. that they abstained, including Brazil.

Although he also condemned and called for an investigation into the launching of rockets by the Hamas group from Gaza, which left 10 Israelis dead and are considered by many to be terrorist attacks, the resolution is not equivalent and in international law rests more with Israel.

The EFE agency reported on Monday that Mexican diplomat Pablo Macedo was to be present on Monday to give explanations of the affair in Tel Aviv.

The Jerusalem Post newspaper said Philippine Ambassador to Israel Macairog S. Alberto had been summoned by Israel’s Foreign Ministry to clarify the vote. The newspaper stressed on Monday that it is likely that the ambassadors of Mexico, Argentina and Uzbekistan will be summoned in the coming days on the votes of their countries in the HRC.

“It is unacceptable that a country like the Philippines, which suffers from extremist and deadly Islamic terrorism in its south, supports a decision that ignores the war crimes of the Hamas terrorist organization,” he said.

Israel hopes friendly countries like the Philippines will support it and not support resolutions that reinforce terrorism, Cohen said, in line with what Ambassador Galit Ronen told Clarín a few weeks ago.

This was after the Argentinian Foreign Ministry’s statement condemned Israel’s “disproportionate use” of force in Gaza and failed to mention Hamas as a terrorist destabilizing factor. At the same time, after this statement, which President Fernández himself justified on the grounds that he was taking the UN positions, and after the vote in the Human Rights Council, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a second statement.

In this, he advocated the “definitive emergence” of an “independent and democratic” Palestinian state as a fundamental solution to the conflict with Israel. He noted that “the only real solution to the conflict will be achieved with the definitive emergence of an independent, democratic, viable and territorially contiguous Palestinian state, which guarantees Israel’s right to live in conditions of peace and security” .