Bogota, July 15-16: more than 20 countries, including Algeria, Spain and China, gathered against the impunity of Israel

More than twenty countries, including Spain, Ireland, Algeria, China and Turkey, will meet on July 15 and 16 in Bogota to announce “concrete” measures against Israel, accused of violating international law. This emergency summit, co -organized by Colombia and South Africa, intends to break with what the organizers denounce as a climate of impunity maintained by the support of Israel.

The rally is part of the Hague group, a coalition created last January, which brings together states decided to enforce international law in the face of crimes committed in Gaza. Among the participants: Algeria, Brazil, Chile, Indonesia, Lebanon, Palestine, Qatar, and many others. Several members have already taken the plunge, such as Colombia which has broken its diplomatic relations with Israel, or Malaysia which prohibited access to its ports to ships carrying weapons to Tel Aviv. “It is time to pass words to collective action against genocide in Palestine,” said Mauricio Jaramillo Jassir, a Colombian vice-minister of multilateral affairs. The summit also provides for the participation of UN experts, notably Francesca Albanese, a special rapporteur for the human rights situation in Palestine.