The Foreign Ministry castigates the Honduran government for recalling its ambassador from Israel in protest of the fighting in Gaza.
“The Honduran government’s decision to recall its ambassador ignores Israel’s right to defend itself against the Hamas terrorist organization, which is worse than ISIS,” Lior Haiat, the spokesperson for Israel’s foreign ministry, writes on X, formerly Twitter.
“Hamas terrorists murdered over 1400 people, kidnapped 240, among them children, babies, women and the elderly, and is still holding them hostage.
Israel will fight Hamas terrorists until Hamas is eliminated from the Gaza Strip,” he says.
“We expect the Honduran government to condemn Hamas, to support Israel’s right to defend itself, and not to take decisions that provide support to Hamas’s terrorism,” Haiat says.
Honduras is the latest Latin American country to indicate unease with Israel’s operations in Gaza. Earlier in the week, Israel criticized Bolivia, Chile and Colombia for taking diplomatic steps in protest of its military operations.
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