Spain’s foreign minister condemns ‘scandalous’ Israeli flamenco video

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Spain’s foreign minister condemns ‘scandalous’ ******** flamenco video

MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s foreign minister condemned as “scandalous and execrable” a video posted by his ******** counterpart suggesting ****** would be grateful to Spain, in a growing spat between the two countries over the Gaza war.

Spain last week announced it would recognise Palestine as a state and in recent days two Spanish government ministers referred to a genocide in Gaza.

A short video posted by ******** Foreign Minister

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on the social media platform X on Sunday says “******: Gracias España” (“******: Thanks Spain”).

The video shows the Spanish flag then a couple dancing to flamenco music. Film of ****** fighters is interspersed including people fleeing during the Oct. 7 ****** ******* on southern ******* that triggered *******’s military campaign in Gaza.

“We are not going to fall into provocations. The video is scandalous and execrable,” Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares told a news conference in Brussels.

“Its scandalous because all the world knows, including my colleague in *******, that Spain condemned the actions of ****** from the first moment. And execrable for the use of one of those symbols of Spanish culture.”

Spanish Defence Minister Margarita Robles said on Saturday that the conflict in Gaza is a “real genocide”, echoing a comment by Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Diaz who last week also described the conflict as a genocide.

******* has strongly rejected accusations made against it by South ******* at the International Court of Justice that it is committing a genocide against Palestinians, arguing it is acting to defend itself and fighting ******.

The ******** embassy in Madrid responded to Robles’ comments in a statement posted on Saturday on X.

“We regret that … Robles has endorsed the false and unfounded story of the ********** organization ******. ******* fights in Gaza in accordance with international law in a war against ****** that it neither started nor wanted, a consequence of the unprecedented massacre perpetrated last Oct. 7.”

The EU, like the ******* States, deems ****** a ********** organisation.

Spain, along with Ireland and Norway, declared this week it would recognise a ************ state on May 28. ******* said this amounted to a “reward for terrorism” and recalled its ambassadors from the three capitals.

In her remarks in a television interview on Saturday, Robles said Madrid’s recognition of Palestine was not a move against ******* but was aimed at helping end ********* in Gaza.

*******’s campaign in Gaza has ******* nearly 36,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza health officials, and destroyed much of the enclave.

******* launched the operation to try to eliminate ****** after the Oct. 7 ******* in which some 1,200 people were ******* and more than 250 were taken ********, according to ******** tallies.

(Reporting by Graham Keeley; Editing by Frances Kerry)

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