Bolivia has severed diplomatic ties with Israel whereas Chile and Colombia recalled their ambassadors from the nation over its disproportionate assaults in Gaza and a mounting humanitarian disaster.
Bolivia “has decided to cut diplomatic relations with the State of Israel, in repudiation and condemnation of the aggressive and disproportionate Israeli military offensive being carried out in the Gaza Strip,” Deputy Foreign Minister Freddy Mamani informed a press convention on Tuesday.
Minister of the Presidency Maria Nela Prada additionally introduced the nation was sending humanitarian support to Gaza.
“We demand an end to the attacks” within the Gaza Strip “which have so far caused thousands of civilian deaths and the forced displacement of Palestinians,” she stated on the identical press convention.
The authorities of leftist Luis Arce is the primary in Latin America to chop ties with Israel because the battle erupted over the Oct. 7 Hamas incursion, which Israeli authorities declare killed greater than 1,400 folks.
Bolivia solely introduced it was restoring ties with Israel in 2019, a decade after they had been lower over earlier assaults on the Gaza Strip.
Hamas welcomed Bolivia’s resolution Tuesday, saying it “holds it in high esteem” whereas urging Arab nations who’ve normalized their relations with Israel to do the identical.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry in its response Wednesday, accused Bolivia of “capitulation to terrorism.”
An announcement by the Foreign Ministry additionally sought to minimize the choice, saying “relations between the countries had been devoid of content anyway” since a authorities handover there.
Colombia, Chile recall envoys
In separate developments, the leaders of each Colombia and Chile additionally spoke out Tuesday in opposition to the Israeli offensive, which has now killed greater than 8,500 Palestinians – two-thirds of them girls and kids.
“I have decided to recall our ambassador to Israel (Margarita Manjarrez) for consultation. If Israel does not stop the massacre of the Palestinian people, we cannot be there,” Colombia’s leftist President Gustavo Petro wrote on X, previously Twitter.
Chile, which has the most important Palestinian inhabitants exterior the Arab world, additionally stated Tuesday it was recalling its ambassador to Israel in protest in opposition to Israel’s “unacceptable violations of international humanitarian law.”
Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, whose nation holds the rotating presidency of the U.N. Security Council, has urged a cease-fire.
He stated the “terrorist attack” by Palestinian militants in opposition to Israel didn’t justify killing “millions of innocents” in Gaza.
“Just because Hamas committed a terrorist attack against Israel doesn’t mean Israel has to kill millions of innocents,” he stated in a reside handle on social media.
Source: www.dailysabah.com