The report said that Dichter was invited by a Spanish organization called The Madrid Coalition. The organization invited Israeli and Palestinian officials to take part in a summit focusing on the peace process and the Arab initiative.
According to the report, Dichter requested to look into the possibility that he may face legal action in Spain over complaints against him for his involvement in the Salah Shihadeh assassination, which took place when Dichter was head of the Israeli internal spy agency Shin Bet and for his involvement in 2009 offensive on Gaza Strip. Dichter was minister of public security at the time.
After looking into the legal aspects of the situation, Madrid officials told Dichter that Spain did not intend to offer him immunity from arrest or interrogation, after which he cancelled his participation in the event.
Shihadeh, who led Hamas' military wing Izz Ad-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, was targeted in a Gaza Strip operation in the summer of 2002 in which 15 Palestinians, including 11 children, were killed and dozens of other were wounded.
The Gaza war report, conducted by a UN fact-finding mission led by South African judge Richard Goldstone, found that Israel committed war crimes in its offensive which killed 1,400 Palestinians.
A long list of current and former ministers and officers cannot travel to many destinations in the world without first conferring with a special team appointed for assessing threats to senior officials. Among those on this dubious list are former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, M.K. Shaul Mofaz, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Ya'alon, and Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai.
