PA, Arab League condemn opening of Czech office in Jerusalem

Prague opened a Jerusalem branch of its Israel embassy last week in a move denounced as a violation of international law.

The Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Arab League have condemned the Czech Republic’s opening of a diplomatic office in Jerusalem as a violation of international law. Prague opened a Jerusalem branch of its Israel embassy, which is located in Tel Aviv, on Thursday. The inauguration was attended by Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis, two weeks after Israel sent 5,000 Moderna COVID-19 vaccine doses to the Czech Republic under a “vaccine diplomacy” programme that later came under legal scrutiny and was frozen.