Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Spain, Ireland, and Norway’s plans to recognize a Palestinian state are akin to handing out “a reward for terrorism.”

STATEMENT BY PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU.

“The intention of several European countries to recognize a Palestinian state is a reward for terrorism.

80% of the Palestinians in Judea and Samaria support the terrible massacre of October 7.

This evil cannot be given a state.

This would be a terrorist state. It will try to repeat the massacre of October 7 again and again; WE WILL NOT CONSENT TO THIS.

Rewarding terrorism will not bring peace and neither will it stop us from defeating Hamas.”