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 Gil Cohen-Magen/ReutersIreland, Spain, and Norway on Wednesday said they will officially recognize a Palestinian state in a historic move that was met with a predictably furious response by Israel as it faces mounting international condemnation over its war with Hamas in Gaza.
Although the majority of countries in the world already recognize a sovereign state of Palestine, most in Western Europe, along with the U.S., do not. The news of the latest additions—whose formal recognition will begin Tuesday—was welcomed by Palestinian officials as a highly symbolic victory for their people and derided by the government of Israel, which wasted no time in excoriating the decision.
Writing on X before Spain announced its decision to join Norway and Ireland, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said he had ordered the "immediate recall" of his country's ambassadors to Oslo and Dublin.
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 CNNBenjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday denied the allegation from an International Criminal Court prosecutor that he was starving Palestinians in Gaza as a method of war, arguing the ICC arrest warrant was based on "a pack of lies."
On CNN, Netanyahu labeled ICC prosecutor Karim Khan a "rogue prosecutor" putting forth "false charges" after he had applied for arrests for the Israeli prime minister and Israel's defense minister, Yoav Gallant, as well as three leaders of Hamas. Khan accused the Israeli pair of "causing extermination, causing starvation as a method of war, including the denial of humanitarian relief supplies, [and] deliberately targeting civilians in conflict."
Netanyahu also compared the notion of his arrest to how it would have looked if President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had been arrested for leading the allied war effort in the 1930s and 1940s.
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