Polish PM Tusk: Israel’s war against Hamas is testing Warsaw’s solidarity
Poland’s solidarity with Israel has been tested by the IDF attack on World Central Kitchen aid workers, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said in a post on X Wednesday morning.
A Polish citizen was one of the seven killed in a strike, which Israel has taken responsibility for and is investigating.
Tusk, in his statement, said, “The vast majority of Poles showed full solidarity with Israel after the Hamas attack,” Today, you are putting this solidarity to a hard test. The tragic attack on volunteers and your reaction arouse understandable anger,” he stressed.
Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski expressed his frustration over the incident in a phone call with Foreign Minister Israel Katz on Tuesday.
He said that Poland plans to conduct its own investigation into the disaster, even as it expected Israel to conduct an independent and transparent one, according to a diplomatic source.
Sikorski told Katz that the humanitarian situation in Gaza was a very controversial one, the source said.
Poland understands the
importance of combating terrorists, Sikorski said, according to the source, but that in this case, the war on Hamas should also be accompanied by a diplomatic process with the Palestinian people.
Katz invited Sikorski to visit Israel to talk about these issues, including the normalization
process with Saudi Arabia, which he hoped would move forward. He expressed his condolences for Poland’s loss and thanked it for standing with Israel since the Hamas attack on October 7.
Katz told Sikorski that Israel was still expecting Poland to act on its pledge to return its
ambassador to Poland, made almost two years when the two countries resolved a diplomatic crisis around Warsaw’s positions regarding the history of the Holocaust as it pertains to Poland.
Sikorski told Katz that Poland was working on it, the source said.