Published October 20,2023
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Colombian President Gustavo Petro blamed Israel for the bombing of a hospital in northern Gaza that killed a whole lot.
Israel’s “barbarity” has gone past that of the Hamas resistance group, he stated.
“With the bombing of the Baptist hospital in Gaza and the death of hundreds of women, children and medical personnel, the barbarity of the Israeli state against the Palestinian people has far surpassed the barbarity of Hamas against the Israeli civilian population,” Petro wrote on X.
“It is innocuous to compare barbarities,” he stated, noting the necessity to open the area for peace and “the option approved by the United Nations since 1967 of two free states: the state of Israel and the Palestinian state, sovereign in their territories.”
The lethal blast on the al-Ahli Baptist hospital within the Gaza Strip provoked bitter recriminations on either side with Hamas officers blaming an Israeli airstrike for the explosion, and Israel saying the blast was brought on by a failed rocket launch by one other resistance group, Islamic Jihad.
Petro declared that the assault on the hospital was a warfare crime that should be investigated internationally.
“The attack on the Palestinian civilian population, the weakest part of the chain, has no ethical or moral hold. The world must impose peace and restore the right of the Palestinian people to be free,” he wrote earlier on X.
The Colombian president declared himself confused by objections of those that label him as an anti-Semite for under criticizing Israel for its “illegal” occupation of Palestinian territory. “I am confused as to whether it is due to intellectual baseness or pure and simple ignorance,” he stated.
After being absent from public occasions for greater than every week, there may be rising criticism from Colombia’s opposition who accuse Petro of attempting to intervene within the Israel-Palestine battle.
Source: www.anews.com.tr