Colombian President Gustavo Petro has announced that the Latin American country will look for to prosecute Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for atrocities dedicated against Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
Foreign Minister Alvaro Leyva was arranged to consult with International Wrongdoer Court (ICC) prosecutors on Friday, to officially press charges versus Netanyahu over “the massacre of the Palestinian people’s children and civilians he has actually triggered,” according to Petro.
The president posted on X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday that Colombia “will add to the complaint by the Republic of Algeria” for war crimes, filed before the ICC versus Netanyahu.
Previously this week, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune called on the ICC to “do something about it” to stop Israel’s campaign against Gaza, and urged human rights companies and other Arab countries to take legal action againnst Netanyahu.
Three NGOs– Al-Haq, Al Mezan, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights– did so on Wednesday, urging the ICC to investigate Israel for “apartheid” and “genocide” over the “continuous barrage of Israeli airstrikes on largely populated civilian locations within the Gaza Strip.”
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The US classifies both Colombia and Israel as “significant non-NATO ally” states. Trouble between the two started last month, however, when Israeli ambassador in Bogota, Gali Dagan, pressed Petro’s government to endorse Netanyahu’s war on Gaza.
Writing on X on October 19, Petro responded that “the barbarity of the state of Israel versus the Palestinian people has actually far surpassed the barbarity of Hamas against the Israeli civilian population” during the October 7 attacks. The Colombian leader then called for an independent Palestinian state within the 1967 borders with Israel.
Bogota has actually given that asked Dagan to leave– he hasn’t– and recalled its envoy from Tel Aviv. Colombia stopped short of severing diplomatic ties with Israel, unlike Bolivia, which did so at the end of October.
Following the October 7 Hamas attack, when the Palestinian militants killed an estimated 1,400 Israelis and took over 200 captive, Israel stated war on Gaza and began bombing the enclave. More than 10,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes up until now, according to regional authorities in Gaza.
Israel does not acknowledge the jurisdiction of the ICC, however the Hague-based court has actually ruled in 2021 that its writ applies to the West Bank and Gaza, which the UN considers to be under Israeli profession since 1967.
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