Israel expelled Spain from the United States’ Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) in Kiryat Gat, in response to a Foreign Ministry assertion on Friday afternoon.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that this got here “after Spain has chosen repeatedly to stand against Israel.”
“Spain has defamed our heroes, the soldiers of the IDF, the soldiers of the most moral army in the world,” Netanyahu stated, including that he’s “not willing to tolerate this hypocrisy and hostility. I do not intend to allow any country to wage a diplomatic war against us without paying an immediate price.”
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar famous that the transfer, which was carried out in coordination with the United States, stemmed from the Spanish authorities’s “obsessive anti-Israel bias.”
“Spain’s obsessive anti-Israel bias under Sánchez’s leadership is so severe that it has lost all capacity to play a constructive role in implementing the peace plan of [US President Donald Trump]’s peace plan and the center operating under the framework of this plan,” Sa’ar stated.
Spain was notified of the choice.
The CMCC, which is part of US Central Command (CENTCOM) was created in October 2025 in an effort to oversee and facilitate the circulation of humanitarian, logistical, and safety help from the worldwide neighborhood into the Gaza Strip below Trump’s Gaza peace plan.
Spain has not too long ago cemented its function as an outspoken critic of the US and Israeli navy campaigns regardless of US threats to punish uncooperative NATO allies.
In a Wednesday publish on X/Twitter, Sanchez stated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s “contempt for life and international law is intolerable.”
He has additionally closed Spanish airspace to any plane concerned in a confrontation he has described as reckless and unlawful.
Danya Saperstein and Reuters contributed to this report.
