Spain government on Tuesday decided to remove its ambassador to Israel, according to the official state gazette published on Wednesday, APA reports, citing Reuters.
Spain's embassy in Tel Aviv will be led by a charge d'affares, a source at the Foreign Ministry said.
Relations between Spain and the United States are "operating normally" despite US President Donald Trump's threats to cut trade with Madrid over its opposition to the US-Israeli war on Iran, the Spanish foreign minister said on Tuesday.
The leftist government of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez drew Trump's ire last week after rejecting the war as reckless and illegal while banning US aircraft from using jointly operated bases in southern Spain in the offensive against Tehran.
Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares told reporters both Spain's embassy in Washington and the US embassy in Madrid were operating with "absolute normalcy”
"Our embassy in Washington is operating normally and has all the contacts it should have as usual," he said, adding that the same applied to the US embassy in Madrid.
Trump threatened on March 3 to impose a full trade embargo on Madrid, also citing the latter's refusal to meet NATO's new defense spending target of 5% of national output.
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