An Israeli delegation’s planned visit to Washington would have sent the “wrong message” to Hamas if it proceeded as planned, a spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told NewsNation Friday.
Netanyahu cancelled the visit after the U.S. abstained from a vote on a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza Monday. The U.S.’s abstention allowed the resolution to ultimately pass.
“It was bad timing,” Tal Heinrich, a spokesperson for Netanyahu, told NewsNation’s Mike Viqueira during an interview on…