Tunisia set to criminalize contact with Israel

Tunisia's Foreign Minister Nabil Ammar said on Tuesday that his country has no plans to establish diplomatic relations with Israel, and that the government is planning to introduce a law to criminalize contact with Israel. 

Ammar expressed the position in coordination with Tunisian President Kais Saied in a meeting in Algiers with his counterpart Ahmed Ataf and President Abdelmadjid Tebboune.

This comes after Libya's foreign minister Naglaa al-Manqoush met with her Israeli counterpart Eli Cohen in Rome last week.

After popular protests and widespread condemnation, Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid al-Dbeibeh announced from the Palestinian embassy that he had dismissed his foreign minister and reaffirmed the country's opposition to normalizing ties with Israel.