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The Trump’s administration destroyed Britain, Norway, Canada, New Zealand and Australia after five countries imposed sanctions and travel bans-together with other activities, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Israeli Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich.
“These sanctions do not encourage US -led efforts to reach a ceasefire, bring all hostages home and end the war,” said state Secretary Marko Rubio. “We reject any concept of equivalence: Hamas is a terrorist organization that committed inexhaustible atrocities, continues to hold innocent civilians as a hostage and prevents the people of Gaza from living in peace.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar shakes his hands with State Secretary Marco Rubio when he arrives in Tel Aviv, Israel, February 15, 2025. (Reuters/Evelyn Hockstein/Pool)
Israel objects to foreign countries sanctioning its officials
Ben-Gwir praised Rubio for his statement saying “the American administration is a moral compass in the face of the confusion of some Western countries that choose to calm terrorist organizations, such as Hamas.” He added that Israel would continue to fight terrorism.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar also thanked Rubio for being a “clear voice of moral” and said that a US official’s statement “should be a compass of an international community, all those who preach () to Israel, ignoring reality”.
Sa’ar on Tuesday condemned Britain, Norway, Canada, New Zealand and Australia’s “terrible” actions against Ben-Gvir and Smotrich. He said that “action and decisions against Israel also contribute to the hardening of Hamas’s stance on the negotiations on the hostage transaction and the distance and the ceasefire.”
Israeli legislators Itar Ben-Gvir and Salel Smotrich attend the new parliamentary oath ceremony in Jerusalem, 15 November, 15 November (Mai’s Allerouzzo/Pool through Reuters)
Netanyahu accuses Britain, France and Canada for enabling Hamas
In the United Kingdom, Norway, Canadian, New Zealand and Australian Foreign Ministers, a statement was accused of “extremist violence and serious use of Palestinian human rights”.
All five countries whose foreign ministers issued a joint statement have criticized Israel when it continued after October. 7 War against Hamas.
In May, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Britain, France and Canada of Hamas’s permission after the countries demanded that Jerusalem be stopped by Jerusalem to stop their military campaign in Gaza.
View of the street in the Gaza Strip, as seen from Israeli military vehicle, June 8, 2025. (Reuters/Ronen Zvulun)
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“I say to President Macron, Prime Minister Karnia and Prime Minister Starmer: when mass murderers, rapists, child killers and hijackers thank you, you’re on the wrong side of justice,” Netanyahu said in a video statement. “You are on the wrong side of humanity and are on the wrong side of history.”
Australia and New Zealand also issued a joint announcement of the Israel-Hamas War in December 2024, in which they called for a ceasefire in Gaza and spilled Israel for UN agencies, such as the controversial United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Middle East (UNWA).
In his Tuesday statement, Sa’ar said that Israel would convene a government meeting at the beginning of next week to discuss its reaction to actions against ministers.
