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Recently, Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen publicly announced that he and Libya’s foreign minister had held a private meeting in Rome the previous week, the first ever between top diplomats from both countries.
One of Libya’s rival prime ministers rejected the prospect of normalizing relations with Israel days after news broke of a secret meeting between the countries’ two foreign ministers. Recently, Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen publicly announced that he and Libya’s foreign minister had held a private meeting in Rome the previous week, the first ever between top diplomats from both countries.
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The next day, Libya’s Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah suspended Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush and launched an investigation into the meeting. It is illegal to normalize ties with Israel under a 1957 law in Libya, which has long been hostile toward Israel and supportive of the Palestinians.
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Dbeibah said that his government completely rejects any form of normalization with Israel, during a televised ministerial meeting recently. Israel’s Foreign Ministry declined to comment on Dbeibah’s remarks, which ignited angry street protests in several Libyan cities, prompting Mangoush to flee to Turkey for fear of her safety. Her exact whereabouts remain unknown.
