Israel has vetoed the entrance to the country of the mayor of Barcelona, who was expected to fly this Friday to Tel Aviv. The government has revoked the entrance permit that the mayor had to travel to Jerusalem and visit symbolic enclaves of the city and move to the cities of Ramala and Belén, in the West Bank. In both Palestinian cities it was planned to meet with its mayors and meet cooperation projects funded by the Barcelona City Council. The Municipal Government delegation was also integrated by the Consistory and a group of journalists, and had been authorized by the government’s foreign ministry. The Barcelona town hall is unaware of the cause of the revocation of the entrance permit.
The trip planned by the Government of Barcelona, which of this year, had a clear character of support to Palestine, although it included symbolic gestures, such as a visit to Mount Herzl de Jerusalen, with floral offering to the Isaac Rabin tube, and the Holocaust Museum of the city.
The visit would have coincided with a moment of maximum tension in the conflict between Israel and Palestine. , prepared to attack it immediately, and with the announcement, last Wednesday, of the Netanyahu government with 3,400 new homes, which would depart in two West Bank (north and south), which would make it difficult to formalize a future Palestinian state. The suspension of the trip also coincides with the presentation, also this Friday, of the flotilla of ships with humanitarian aid that scratches next week from Barcelona.
