JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Belgium’s Minister of Development Cooperation and Urban Policy, Caroline Gennez, has accused Israel of “erasing entire Palestinian villages from the map.”
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In an interview with the pro-Palestinian Flemish daily De Morgen published earlier this week, Gennez claimed that “In the occupied Palestinian territories, the situation is no longer sustainable. Entire villages have been wiped off the map by Israelis. The periods of violent escalation are becoming shorter and more intense. As a result, the population has nowhere to turn. More Palestinians have been injured and killed due to violence since the beginning of this year compared to all of 2022.”
Following her comments, Belgium’s Ambassador to Israel, Jean-Luc Bodson, was summoned for a reprimand at the Israeli Foreign Ministry, while Israel’s Ambassador to Belgium, Idit Rosenzweig-Abu, submitted a strongly worded protest letter to the Belgian Foreign Ministry.
“The Belgian ambassador in Israel was summoned to the MFA for reprimand and required to provide explanations,” Rosenzweig-Abu wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
A spokesperson from Israel’s Foreign Ministry did not respond to a request for comment.
Rosenzweig-Abu also sent a protest letter to the Belgian foreign ministry and to Gennez, whose comments she described as “libelous and defamatory.”
In her, the ambassador expressed her profound dismay at the inflammatory remarks made by the Belgian minister during her interview. Regarding her claim that more Palestinians had been killed and injured in 2023, Rosenzweig-Abu responded that more Israelis have been injured and killed this year than in any year since 2005.
Gennez appeared to be referring to a recent AP report that three illegal Bedouin hamlets in Area C of Judea and Samaria had been cleared out, due to what former residents said was a year of intensified attacks and harassment by armed Jewish settlers living in outposts on neighboring hilltops.
Euro Trash scum.
her statement, no matter how crazy, gets full coverage, whereas the israeli response is buried in fuzzy narration.
why isn’t someone at the foreign ministry holding press conferences and releasing actual, official statements to contradict her lies?!
Dos iz neias? Dos iz sheker vchazov! You’ll write anything to besmirch the good Jews living in the West Bank because they are zionists! Also because you guys are soccmer Nazi bastards who hate Jews from the bottom of the heart and you would say the same thing about King David in his time! Because you have no idea what’s happening you never studied history properly tanach! And you have what would be ashamed of!
You guys are so low but you have to look up to look down that’s bad. I’m not upset I just want you to plotz like a popcorn.RESHOOIM PUUSHIM INN KOFRIM.KOFRIM BTORAS MOSHE.