Foreign Ministry of Russia called Israel Ambassador to the Russian Federation Alex Ben-Tsvi for an explanatory conversation to be held on Monday. The Israeli publication “Details” argues that this step is to continue the diplomatic pressure of Russia, after Israel voted for the exclusion of the Russian Federation from the UN Human Rights Council.
The source in the Government of Israel said that the call of the ambassador to the conversation is not a surprise. According to him, it is “a traditional tool for the reaction of the diploma.”
Internet resource reminds that on Friday, the Russian Foreign Ministry has published a sharp statement to Israel after the statement of Yair Lapid that Israel supported the decision of the UN General Assembly on the temporary suspension of Russia’s membership in the Human Rights Council. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs called these words “anti-Russian supplies”. The department of Sergei Lavrov accused Israel in the “bad veiled attempt” to use the situation around Ukraine in order to distract the attention of the international community from one of the most so-old unresolved conflicts – Palestinian-Israeli. “
“In violation of numerous decisions of the Security Council and the UN General Assembly, the Israeli government continues to be illegal occupation and” smoke annexation “of Palestinian territories, as a result of which over 2.5 million Palestinians in the West Bank of the Jordan River today live in cut from the outside world of scattered enclaves “,” said the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Israeli 9th TV channel writes that in parallel the Russian Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation also filed a “dissatisfaction signal”, opening the detail of the Israeli strike in Syria on April 14.
TV channel reminds that in the last two weeks, Naftali Bennett actually ceased mediating efforts between Russia, Ukraine and Western leaders, who had previously actively undertaken on his own initiative.