Norway's ambassador to Israel has confirmed to Haaretz a report by Norwegian media outlet VG that visiting Norwegian Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide protested to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday about Israel’s refusal to allow a Norwegian aid worker to return from a trip abroad to Israel. She added that Norway would act against the Boycott. Divestment and Sanctions blacklist that will bar senior activists in BDS groups from entering Israel.
The woman’s employer, Norwegian Church Aid, categorically denied Interior Ministry allegations that, working on their behalf, the woman in question had employed false pretenses to obtain visas for aid workers in violence of visa terms.