The vice president Veronica Abadbased on ambassador of Ecuador in Tel Aviv, Israelit’s found sheltered in a bunker in the midst of Iran’s massive missile attack on Israel unleashed, as she reported in a space, on the morning of Sunday, April 14, still Saturday the 13th in Ecuador.
“I hear planes coming and going, I’m with my children, complying with the regulations, it’s very difficult, especially for my children.”Abad said.
Abad indicated that has not received “not even a message of solidarity from either the president or the presidential team”.
From the bunker in which she was taking refuge with her children, the vice president indicated that in Israel there are about 400 registered Ecuadorians, while compatriots with irregular immigration status “are approximately 1,100.”
“The Foreign Ministry is in permanent contact with all the diplomatic staff of the Embassies in Palestine and Israel based in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv,” he indicated in a statement in which he did not make any reference to the vice president of the Republic, Veronica Abadwho is the ambassador to Israel.
A second statement from the Foreign Ministry, around midnight, states that “it directly contacted ambassador Verónica Abad, who confirmed that she was fine.” and that it followed the instructions that the State of Israel had given to all the diplomatic missions accredited in the country.
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted that “the State of Israel has informed all the diplomatic missions of different countries present in that country, the security and personal integrity instructions.”
And he added that he monitors the situation and will report “in a timely manner.”
The vice president and ambassador has had a political distancing with the Ecuadorian head of state, Daniel Noboasince before they assumed power on November 23, after winning extraordinary elections to replace Guillermo Lasso (2021-2023).
Noboa, who apparently criticized some controversial statements by his vice president, delegated Abad to head the Ecuadorian embassy in Israel, a decision that seemed like a way to express the distance between the two.
Iran attacked Israel this Saturday with hundreds of drones in retaliation for the recent attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascuswhich killed seven members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and which Tehran attributes to the Jewish State.
Anti-aircraft alarms sounded on Saturday throughout the country, including in the city of Jerusalem, where half a dozen explosions were also heard due to interceptions in emblematic places such as the parliament or the Esplanade of the Mosques.
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