Dutch foreign minister quits over failure to secure sanctions against Israel | Netherlands

Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp resigned after a cabinet meeting failed to secure the sanctions against Israel and weakened the Netherlands’ fragile guard government.

Veldkamp’s new Social Agreement (NSC) party’s colleagues on Friday, the cabinet debate on the adoption of more measures against Israel came out after a dead end.

The Discussion on Israel’s discussions about taking more steps came after the Netherlands to join 20 countries in signing a joint declaration in which Israel plans to establish an illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank on Thursday. Critics say that 3,400 home settlements will divide the area in half.

The Netherlands prevented the far-right Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich from entering the country in July.

After the Friday meeting, Veldkamp, ​​a former Israeli Ambassador, said that he could “take meaningful additional measures” to the Dutch news agency ANP. One expression He declared his resignation and said, uz We live during an unprecedented geopolitical tension that diplomacy is more important than ever. ”

Supporting your posture, NSC, coalition partnersThe Middle-Health People’s Party Freedom and Democracy Party (VVD) and the populist farmer-Katizen Movement (BBB), “Refuse to accept its worrying situation [in Gaza] and take the necessary precautions ”.

In the Netherlands, there were a series of protests to put pressure on the war against the war in Gaza, which approached the two -year trail of the Netherlands. Between 100,000 and 150,000 people participated in a show in The Hague in June, which made it the biggest protest in the Netherlands in twenty years.

Veldkamp’s resignation, UN -backed experts said on Friday, Gaza City and the environment in the “completely human -made” understanding of a famine and deaths can rise exponentially, he said. Integrated Food Safety Classification (IPC) has only declared four clusters in Sudan last year since its last foundation in 2004.

The NSC is part of the Coalition Government, a guard administration that has ruled the Netherlands since June, when the Coalition Government has collapsed after the alliance with the far -right politician Geert Wiles withdrawn its party’s ministers from the alliance.

The withdrawal of PVV from the coalition in June triggered early elections with a survey called on 29 October.