Overview

• Israel revoked Jaume Collboni’s previously granted entry permit just hours before his flight to Tel Aviv.
• The Barcelona-led trip, authorized by Spain’s Foreign Ministry, included city staff and journalists and was designed to meet Palestinian mayors and review cooperation projects.
• The itinerary combined work in Ramallah and Bethlehem with symbolic stops in Jerusalem, including Mount Herzl for a tribute at Yitzhak Rabin’s grave and the city’s Holocaust museum.
• The decision comes after Barcelona’s municipal government voted in May to suspend institutional relations with Israel and end its twinning with Tel Aviv.
• The cancellation coincides with escalating regional tensions reported by Spanish media, including an Israeli plan for 3,400 new settlement homes and the presentation in Barcelona of a humanitarian flotilla scheduled to depart next week.