“Tomorrow, diplomatic relations with the State of Israel will be severed. » The President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, announced this Wednesday that he wanted to sever all diplomatic ties with Israel, describing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as “genocidal”.
Gustavo Petro, the first left-wing president in the history of Colombia, had already on February 20 accused Israel of committing a “genocide” of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, expressing his “full solidarity” with his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula. Da Silva plunged into a diplomatic crisis for having drawn a comparison between the Israeli offensive and the extermination of the Jews by the Nazis.
Brazil and Colombia support South Africa’s historic case against Israel before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague for alleged violations of the 1948 Genocide Convention.