Hebron settler calls Spanish FM anti-Semite
Ma’an – 08/02/2011
Spanish FM Trinidad Jimenez tours the Old City of Hebron, moments before she was verbally assaulted by settlers. [MaanImages]
HEBRON — A heated argument broke out between Hebron settlers and local Governor Kamil Hamid as the latter was escorting the visiting Spanish Foreign Minister through the occupied Old City.
As Minister Trinidad Jimenez left the historic Ibrahimi Mosque, also known as the Cave of Patriarchs, right-wing settler leader and activist Itamar Ben-Gvir shouted at the woman, calling her an anti-Semite and “Israel hater,” the Israeli daily news site Ynet quoted.
Speaking to Ma’an after the incident, Hamid confirmed the report, saying a group of setters had accosted the delegation and called Jimenez and “anti-Semite,” and told her to “go back to Spain.”
The settlers, he added, “were under the protection of the Israeli police.”
Hamid condemned the assault, saying it was a shame for settlers to attack the representative of a nation that is behind the peace process. “It is a clear message to the EU,” he said.
Minister Jimenez said she was unsettled by the incident. “I do not hate anyone, I came to the Middle East to support the peace process and to provide more support for the awful humanitarian situation in Hebron,” she told Ma’an.
The Spanish government is ready to help the PA and the Palestinians she said, adding that her government was ready to recognize a Palestinian state.
In January, Ben-Givr initiated a swarming of a home the governor was visiting in the Tel Rumeida district of the city. A mob of settlers surrounded the home shouting “terrorist,” preventing his delegation from leaving the area for more than three hours.
Israeli police operating in the neighborhood reportedly interfered when a fight broke out between settlers and members of the governor’s delegation, but the governor complained when the police failed to evacuate the settlers from outside the home.
Angered at the failure of the police to remove the settlers, Governor Hamid said the officers “might as well go home and let the settlers take control,” adding that the mob clearly already had the upper hand on the soldiers.
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