Foreign Ministry Director-General Eden Bar Tal summoned the Belarusian ambassador to Israel for a reprimand over President Alexander Lukashenko's comments accusing the 'Jewish lobby' and distorting the memory of the Holocaust with false claims against IDF counterterror operations. Bar Tal called the statements vile and unacceptable.
Foreign Ministry Director-General Eden Bar Tal summoned the Belarusian ambassador to Israel on Wednesday afternoon for a formal reprimand. The move comes in response to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's recent remarks accusing the 'Jewish lobby' and making false claims about IDF operations against terrorism, which Bar Tal said distort the memory of the Holocaust. The director-general conveyed to the ambassador that the comments are vile and unacceptable. No further details on the ambassador's response or follow-up actions have been reported yet.
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