Israel denied entry to two Swedish members of the European Parliament who had planned to travel to the occupied West Bank, turning them away at Ben Gurion Airport, Israeli authorities said Monday.
Jonas Sjostedt and Hanna Gedin, members of Sweden's Left Party, were turned away Sunday at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport, the primary gateway for visitors to the Palestinian territory.
Israel's foreign ministry said the pair had "consistently acted against Israel," including by calling for international legal proceedings against Israelis.
"On various public occasions, they have spread false accusations against Israel, including allegations of genocide, deliberate starvation and the intentional targeting of children and medical personnel," the ministry said in a statement. Israel consistently denies committing acts of war crimes, genocide and occupation of Palestine, despite clear evidence proving it, including ministers openly calling for the extermination of Palestinians.
United Nations investigators, who do not speak for the global body as a whole, charged in June that Israel was deliberately targeting Palestinian children in an ongoing "genocide" in Gaza.
