The president of Chile, Gabriel Boric, and the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, They announced this Tuesday the called for consultations to its ambassadors in Israel in a context of Israeli bombings in the Gaza Strip. Earlier, Bolivia made the decision to break diplomatic relations with the Israeli state.
“Before the unacceptable violations of International Humanitarian Law what has been incurred Israel in the strip of Loop, As the Government of Chile, we have resolved to call Santiago for consultations ambassador of Chile in Israel, Jorge Carvajal,” said Boric on his social network account X, as the reason why the diplomat has been summoned.
Furthermore, he expressed that Chile “strongly condemns and observes with great concern that these military operations – which at this point in their development involve collective punishment of the Palestinian civilian population in Gaza – do not respect fundamental norms of International Law, as demonstrated by the most of eight thousand civilian victims, mostly women and children”.
“I have decided to call our ambassador to Israel for consultation. If Israel does not stop the massacre of the Palestinian people, we cannot be there,” he said. Petro, in tune with Boric, summoning diplomat Margarita Eliana Manjarrez Herrera to the country.
In the middle of the month, the Colombian president had warned about a possible measure in response to the situation in Gaza. “If we have to suspend foreign relations with Israel, we suspend them. We do not support genocides. The president of Colombia is not insulted,” he said.
Earlier, Bolivia announced the breaking of diplomatic relations with Israel and demanded an end to attacks on the Palestinian population living in the enclave.
The government “has made the determination to break diplomatic relations with the State of Israel in repudiation and condemnation of the aggressive and disproportionate Israeli military offensive carried out in the Gaza Strip“said Freddy Mamani, vice chancellor, at a press conference.
New Israeli bombing of Gaza
In the middle of conflict between Israel and the Hamas groupa new bombardment of Israeli army over a refugee camp left a balance of at least 145 deaths. The attack on Yabaliawhich is located north of the Gaza Strip, also caused hundreds of injured.
Of the total number of deceased, at least 90 were taken to the Indonesian Hospital from the Strip, while another 55 were transported to the center Kamal Adwanboth in the north of the enclave.
The authorities do not rule out that the death toll could be highersince there are still missing people under the rubble of collapsed buildings.
Source: Ambito
