Israeli forces have shot on Wednesday morning against a delegation of some 30 European diplomats – among them, of Spain – and other Western and Arab countries that were visiting the town of Yenín,, as denounced by the Palestinian Foreign Ministry. The Israeli army has confirmed the incident – in which there have been no injuries – and has justified claiming that their soldiers only “warning in the air.” “The FDI [Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel] They regret the inconveniences caused, ”says the army statement, after remarking that Yenín is an“ active combat zone ”and that the diplomats“ deviated from the approved route ”.
In a recording made allegedly during the attack and broadcast by the private Israeli television channel N12, two Israeli soldiers are seen, which, at least once, shoot directly against the international delegation, not on the air.
Palestinian reports: Exceptional event in Jenin – the IDF opened fire at a diplomatic delegation
– News – N12 (@N12news)
The diplomats who participated in the visit, organized by the Palestinian National Authority (ANP) to verify, were representatives of 27 countries, according to the EFE Agency: 14 of the European Union (Portugal, Austria, Bulgaria, Spain, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, France, Holland, Finland, Italy, Germany, Denmark and Belgium) and the United Kingdom; four of the American continent (Canada, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay); the Arabs Jordan, Morocco, Türkiye and Egypt; and Russia, China, South Korea and Japan. In addition, representatives of the World Food Program (PMA) and the UN Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), as well as the European Union office, which have witnessed the shooting.
The Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that a Spaniard was in the attacked group, that this “is well” and that the Executive is “investigating everything that happened,” reports Miguel González. “We are in contact with other affected countries to” stress a spokesman for the department led by José Manuel Albares.
The high head of EU foreign policy, Kaja Kallas, has described the shooting as “unacceptable” and has demanded that those responsible “accounts”. “We call Israel to investigate this incident,” he said in an appearance before the press in Brussels, he reports Silvia Ayuso. On Tuesday, Kallas had announced the intention of the European authorities to review the EU Association Agreement with Israel, after the latest civilians of civilians in Gaza.
The head of European diplomacy has highlighted the severity of this Wednesday’s incident and, in allusion to the words of the Israeli army, who had claimed that he only made “warning shots” in the air, he said: “Warning shots are shots.” “Any threat to the life of diplomats is unacceptable,” Kallas added, before reminding Israel that, as a signatory to the Vienna Convention, he has the “obligation to guarantee the safety of all foreign diplomats.”
Italy has also asked explanations to Israel “at the highest level,” said the Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, after confirming that the Italian Vice -Consul Alessandro Tutino was in the diplomat delegation.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry, which believes that the attacks were to “intimidate”, has spread images of the incident: a 45 -second video in which seven shots are heard and diplomats are seen running to escape from the place. “This deliberate and illicit act constitutes a flagrant and serious violation of international law and the fundamental principles of diplomatic relations enshrined in the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961,” the Ministry has remarked in a message in the social network X. “The attack against accredited diplomatic representatives – who enjoy full protection and immunity legal by virtue of international law. Israeli for the norms and obligations governing interstate relationships and highlights the entrenched impunity with which it continues to operate, ”he adds.
The Ministry adds that “these acts will not be unpunished” and urges the international community, in particular to the countries of origin of the affected diplomats, to adopt “a clear and firm posture” and “to implement effective measures to curb the constant crimes of Israel.”
The Islamist militia Hamás has affirmed that the attack in Yenín is one more evidence that Israel is determined to violate “all international norms and conventions”, and has claimed the international community to “intensify” the pressure against the Netanyahu government.
Another 40 dead by bombs in gaza
Meanwhile, in Gaza. This Wednesday another 40 people have died, according to sanitary sources of the Strip, governed by Hamas. The last balance offered today by the Gazati Health Ministry states that at least 53,655 people have died and 121,950 have been injured in the Palestinian territory since the Israeli offensive began on October 7, 2023 – in response to Hamas’s attacks against Israel in which 1,200 people died and 250 were kidnapped.
To the air attacks that dozens of lives are charged every day, in addition, the one that the Israeli government imposed on March 2 – implying the entry of food, drinking water, medicines and any type of humanitarian aid – and that remains without rising. Although last Sunday Israel announced that it would minimally relieve that blockade letting into – because the harsh images of the famine, he claimed, could make the United States support for their military offensive -, the reality is that the few trucks with humanitarian aid that have been authorized to enter Gaza since then have not yet managed to access the distribution places.
According to the information collected by EFE, there are a dozen trucks of UNICEF and five of the United Arab Emirates standing on the Gazatí side of the border, as well as an undetermined number of the UN World Food Program. Israel “is causing delays in the entry of trucks” and is “trying to evade international pressure falsely affirming that it has allowed to help,” said the director of the NGO Palestinas in Gaza, Amjad al Shawa.
The Israeli military agency in charge of coordinating the entry of aid in Gaza, the COGAT, does not answer the question of how many trucks have effectively entered in Gaza or explain why they have not yet started to distribute the help. Pope Leo XIV has asked today, at his first general audience in the Plaza de San Pedro del Vaticano and before more than 25,000 faithful, the entry of humanitarian aid to the strip.
The UN asks to stop the “children’s murder”
The UN Committee for the Rights of the Child has urged Israel on Wednesday to “end the murder and physical damage to children in Gaza”, and has demanded that the access of humanitarian aid to the strip unlock. “There is no justification for those actions that clearly challenge international and humanitarian law, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention for the Prevention and Sanction of the Crime of Genocide,” says the committee in a statement.
The United Nations expert body has assured that 100 children died in Israeli attacks against Gaza last week; And, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), around half a hundred have died due to lack of food and another 71,000 could die from here to a year.
On Tuesday, the United Nations Humanitarian Aid, Tom Fletcher, warned that “” in the following “48 hours” if they did not receive help. The UN, however, subsequently corrected that temporary data and said that the risk of death of those 14,000 babies is estimated for the next 10 months.
