Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz accused Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez of being a “partner to incitement” to Jewish “genocide” Tuesday as Madrid prepared to recognise the State of Palestine, AFP reports.

“You are a partner to incitement to genocide of the Jewish people”, Katz wrote on X, while making a parallel between Spanish minister Yolanda Diaz on the one hand, and Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei and Hamas Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar on the other following her call for a free Palestine, “from the river to the sea”.

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