A French diplomat who was filmed taking a swing at an Israeli soldier will be expelled from Israel, after Jerusalem filed a complaint with Paris about the incident. The incident occurred while Marion Fesneau-Castaing was participating in a European Union delegation delivering supplies to Palestinians attempting to rebuild illegally-built – and subsequently demoloished – structures.

Video of the incident is embedded below. The Israeli Foreign Ministry was terse:

National Security Adviser Yaakov Amidror is holding discussions to decide whether the French diplomat may be declared a persona non-grata. A decision has not yet been reached, but if such a measure is adopted, the diplomat, , would no longer be afforded diplomatic immunity and would be banished from Israel.

“Diplomats are sent by their governments to act as a bridge and not as provocateurs,” the Foreign Ministry said. “The European diplomats and their governments owe an explanation for this blatant violation of diplomatic codes of conduct. Israel has already made it clear that it will not accept this misconduct. Israel’s response will reflect the seriousness of these violations.”

Europe’s role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has become tangled. Top international figures – including several former heads of state – recently blasted the E.U. for passing what appear to be “discriminatory” guidelines regarding Israeli communities beyond the country’s 1948 armistice lines. Secretary of State John Kerry has criticized those same guidelines and pressured the E.U. to modify them. Germany has officially distanced itself from the controversial directives. The policies have not yet been modified.

Perceptions of E.U. hostility toward Israel have eroded the bloc’s influence in the region. Past E.U. gambits have left the bloc diplomatically sidelined in the Near East, and top Israeli diplomats have been known to brush off E.U. rebukes as evidence that the Europeans fail to “understand regional reality.”