Colombian President Gustavo Petro (heart proper) attends an World Employees’ Day rally in Bogotá, Colombia, on Wednesday.
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Colombian President Gustavo Petro (heart proper) attends an World Employees’ Day rally in Bogotá, Colombia, on Wednesday.
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Colombia is ready to damage diplomatic family members with Israel over its movements in Gaza. Chatting with a crowd within the capital Bogotá on Wednesday, Colombian President Gustavo Petro mentioned that the rustic “will destroy diplomatic family members with the state of Israel” on Thursday, calling its govt “genocidal.” “If Palestine dies, humanity dies, and we don’t seem to be going to let it die,” he mentioned. Israel has strongly denied committing genocide in its conflict in opposition to Hamas in Gaza. “Historical past will understand that Gustavo Petro made up our minds to aspect with probably the most despicable monsters identified to mankind,” Israeli Overseas Minister Israel Katz mentioned mentioned in a put up on X, previously Twitter.
Colombia is likely one of the U.S.’s closest companions in Latin The us, and it has prior to now been an in depth spouse of Israel.
However Colombia’s leftist president is certainly one of a number of Latin American leaders to take a robust vocal stand in opposition to Israel since its army marketing campaign in Gaza in keeping with the Oct. 7 Hamas-led assault on Israel.
Bolivia broke off family members with Israel on Oct. 31. And Nicaragua has introduced fees on the World Courtroom of Justice alleging Germany is violating the Genocide Conference by way of offering guns and assist to Israel. Germany denies the fee. This week the United International locations’ courtroom on the Hague rejected Nicaragua’s request to reserve a halt to Germany’s palms exports to Israel.
