Israel has announced it will cut contacts with European Union top diplomat Kaja Kallas over reports that she compared Israel's treatment of Palestinians to apartheid in South Africa.
"I have no choice but to sever all contact with Ms Kallas until she retracts the blood libel she directed at the world’s only Jewish state, which is also the only democracy in the Middle East," Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Thursday on X.
Digital media outlet Euractiv reported last week that Kallas made the remarks in May during a visit to Mexico.
"I value our dialogue and engagement, and I’m open to continue in that spirit, respectfully and constructively," Kallas wrote on X.
"To bring peace to the Middle East, the Two-State Solution remains the only viable path. The EU has condemned the illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank that make it increasingly difficult to get to that goal. That is the EU position," she wrote.
