“Diplomatic relations with the State of Israel will be cut”, declared Petro, the first left-wing President in Colombia’s history, in a speech to his supporters in Bogotá. February, Petro had already accused Israel of committing a “genocide” against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, expressing his “total solidarity” with his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, plunged into a diplomatic crisis for having compared the Israeli offensive to the extermination of the Jews by the Nazis. Brazil and Colombia are supporting the historic case presented by South Africa against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in The Hague, for alleged violation of the Genocide Convention of 1948.Petro later announced the suspension of the purchase of weapons manufactured by Israel, one of the main suppliers of the South American country’s security forces, reiterating his statements about the ongoing “genocide” in Gaza, which ” It reminds us of the Holocaust, even if the world powers don’t like to recognize it.”
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