Bolivia said on Tuesday it had severed diplomatic ties with Israel over its attacks on the Gaza Strip, while neighboring Colombia and Chile recalled their ambassadors to the Middle Eastern country for talks.
Three South American countries condemned Israel’s attack on Gaza and condemned the deaths of Palestinians.
Bolivia “decided to sever diplomatic relations with the country of Israel as a rejection and condemnation of the aggressive and disproportionate Israeli military attacks that took place in the Gaza Strip,” Deputy Foreign Minister Freddy Mamani said at a press conference.
Palestinians search for victims at the site of an Israeli attack on a house in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, on October 31, 2023. REUTERS Palestinians search for survivors in the rubble of a building following an Israeli bombardment in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on October 31. 2023. AFP via Getty Images
All three countries have called for a ceasefire, with Bolivia and Chile pushing for a humanitarian aid route to the zone and accusing Israel of violating international law.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro called the attack a “massacre of Palestinians” in a post on social media network X, formerly known as Twitter.
Israel’s foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Bolivian Deputy Foreign Minister Freddy Mamani (right) speaks next to presidential minister Maria Nela Prada, during a press conference announcing that Bolivia will cut ties with Israel on Oct. 31. 2023. BOLIVIA MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS/AFP via Getty Images Palestinians search for victims killed at the site of an Israeli attack on a house in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, on Oct. 31, 2023. REUTERS Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Israeli Police Unit 33 at a location that not revealed on 30 Oct 2023. ZUMAPRESS. com
Other Latin American countries, such as Mexico and Brazil, have also called for a ceasefire.
“What we have now is the madness of the Israeli prime minister, who wants to eliminate the Gaza Strip,” Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Friday.
Bolivia was among the first countries to actively cut diplomatic ties with Israel over its war in Gaza, in retaliation for an Oct. 7 attack in southern Israel by Palestinian Hamas militants that Israel says killed 1,400 people, including children, and took 240 hostages.
A view from the area after an Israeli airstrike on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, on Oct. 31. 2023. Anadolu via Getty Images The bodies of Palestinians killed in an Israeli attack on a house in the Jabalia refugee camp lie in a hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, on Oct. 31, 2023. REUTERS
Bolivia severed diplomatic ties with Israel in 2009 under leftist President Evo Morales, also in protest of Israel’s actions in Gaza.
In 2020, the right-wing interim government of President Jeanine Anez re-established relations.
“We reject the war crimes committed in Gaza. We support international initiatives to guarantee humanitarian aid, in compliance with international law,” Bolivian President Arce said on social media on Monday.
Palestinians try to rescue victims at the site of an Israeli attack on a house in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, on Oct. 31. 2023. REUTERS The body of a Palestinian who died in an Israeli attack on a house in the Jabalia refugee camp, lies in a hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, on Oct. 31. 2023. Reuters
Gaza health authorities say that 8,525 people, including 3,542 children, have been killed in Israeli attacks since Oct. 7.
UN officials said more than 1.4 million of Gaza’s civilian population of about 2.3 million have been displaced.
Israel’s military has accused Iran-backed Hamas, which rules the narrow coastal region, of using civilian buildings as shelters for fighters, commanders and weaponry, a charge it denies.
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