Tel Aviv [Israel], May 30 (ANI/TPS): Israel's Foreign Minister Israel Katz slammed the Slovenian government's decision to recommend that the Slovenian Parliament recognize an independent Palestinian state.

Katz said that such a move "rewards Hamas for murder, rape, mutilation of bodies, beheading of babies, and strengthens the Iranian axis of evil while damaging the close friendship between the Slovenian and Israeli people."

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"I hope the Slovenian Parliament rejects this recommendation," he added. (ANI/TPS)

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