The government of Chad announced that it has recalled its charge d’affaires in Israel due to the war in the Gaza Strip. This is the seventh country to do so, after Turkey, Honduras, Chile, Columbia, Jordan, and Bahrain.
The African country issued a statement saying the move came “because of the unprecedented wave of lethal violence, and the loss of many innocent civilians in Gaza.” It also called for a “ceasefire which will lead to a stable solution for the Palestinian question.”
Chad is located in Central Africa, and borders Libya, Sudan, Cameroon, and Nigeria. It is the fifth largest state in Africa, containing some 15.8 million residents, a million and a half of whom live in the capital of N'Djamena. The country was established in 1960 after becoming independent from France, and French is still considered an official language there alongside Arabic.
Israel established diplomatic relations with Chad during the sixties, but relations were severed with the Muslim country in 1972 due to a change in government. In January 2019, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu declared renewed diplomatic relations between the country, with the Foreign Ministry assessing that this helped promote normalization with Sudan and Morocco in the following years.
