\u201cIDF soldiers themselves admit to war crimes. They killed not only civilian Palestinians but even their own hostages,\u201d the center-right politician\u00a0continued.<\/p>\n
Sikorski\u2019s criticism seemed to add fresh fuel to the dispute. \u201cWhat you wrote reflects ignorance and a deep lack of understanding,\u201d Sa\u2019ar responded on X<\/a> on Monday. The IDF is a \u201cprofessional and ethical army,\u201d the minister added, and \u201cthere is no Western military that fights terrorism more precisely, or on the basis of better intelligence, than the IDF.\u201d<\/p>\n The Israeli foreign ministry confirmed it had\u00a0completed an initial investigation<\/a>\u00a0into the act and that \u201cappropriate measures\u201d would be taken against \u201cthose involved,\u201d adding that the statue would be restored to its original location.<\/p>\n Patriarch of Jerusalem Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa also condemned the images<\/a> as \u201ca grave affront to the Christian faith,\u201d calling for \u201cdisciplinary actions\u201d against the perpetrator.<\/p>\n The spat comes as tensions between Israel and the EU continue to escalate<\/a>, with even traditional European allies of Israel voicing criticism of its treatment of Palestinians.<\/p>\n German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said he was \u201cdeeply concerned about developments in the Palestinian territories\u201d following reports by human rights organizations of a surge in violence<\/a> against the group by settlers in the West Bank. Meanwhile, Italy suspended a defense and technology agreement<\/a> with Israel last week \u201cin consideration of the current situation\u201d in the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIDF soldiers themselves admit to war crimes. They killed not only civilian Palestinians but even their own hostages,\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[159,37,9641,49,6286,27400,27401,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-74956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-foreign-policy","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-israel-hezbollah-war","11":"tag-middle-east","12":"tag-poland","13":"tag-polish-politics","14":"tag-radoslaw-sikorski","15":"tag-war-in-iran"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116437934570867350","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}