Eduardo González
Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares has extended “the complete solidarity and support of the Government” to the two employees of the Spanish Embassy in Tel Aviv whose homes were destroyed by Iranian bombing.
“Two homes belonging to the staff of the Spanish Embassy in Israel have been destroyed by one of the missiles that hit Tel Aviv,” Israeli Chargé d’Affaires in Madrid, Dan Poraz, reported Tuesday in a virtual meeting with Spanish media, according to the Europa Press news agency.
At the same meeting, Poraz (who has been Israel’s highest representative in Madrid since the ambassador was recalled for consultations as a result of Spain’s decision to recognize the Palestinian state) lamented that the Spanish government had not issued “any condemnation” of this latest incident, despite having affected two employees of the Spanish Embassy, who “have suffered significant damage to their homes in Tel Aviv,” and that it had not expressed “a word of solidarity with the 24 dead” caused by the Iranian bombings.
In this regard, sources from the Foreign Office assured The Diplomat on Tuesday that “the same day he received the news, the minister called the ambassador to Israel (Ana Sálomon), inquired about the two affected embassy staff, and asked her to give them her full support and convey the government’s solidarity and backing.”
“Furthermore,” they added, “he contacted his Israeli counterpart (Gideon Saar), to whom he expressed his condolences for the victims and discussed the protection of the colony and the Spanish Embassy.”