On Wednesday, President Gustavo Petro told thousands of supporters that the world cannot accept ‘genocide, the extermination of an entire people’.
BOGOTÁ - President Gustavo Petro said Wednesday Colombia will sever diplomatic ties with Israel, whose government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu he described as"genocidal" in its war in Gaza.
The war in Gaza broke out after the unprecedented Hamas attack on southern Israel on 7 October. That assault resulted in the deaths of some 1,170 people, mostly civilians, according to Israeli figures. On Wednesday, Petro told thousands of supporters that the world cannot accept"genocide, the extermination of an entire people."
"The Colombian president has promised to reward Hamas murderers and rapists - and today he delivered," Foreign Minister Israel Katz said on X. Israel at the time accused Petro of"expressing support for the atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists, fuelling anti-Semitism," and summoned Colombia's ambassador.Petro, Colombia's first leftist president, has also asserted that"democratic peoples cannot allow Nazism to reestablish itself in international politics."
The country has a history of strong diplomatic and military relations with Israel and the United States.
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