Petro accuses the US, EU and UK of supporting the dropping of bombs against the Palestinians
Colombian President Gustavo Petro accused the US, EU and UK at the Celac summit this Friday of supporting Israel in dropping bombs against the Palestinians, whose cause he is a staunch supporter of. Petro said that “it is not the old dynamic of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict” that is being experienced today, but that there are forces that are trying to “preserve what exists (…) that are killing us as humanity.” ” and that it was “deeply violent.” “That is why Germany supports genocide, and France, the European Union, the United Kingdom and especially the United States of America in its democratic version support the dropping of bombs on people,” Petro explained at the América colloquium. Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, the VIII Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac), taking place in Kingstown, capital of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
The Colombian president has stressed that “a genocide” is taking place in plain sight and has called for decarbonization, believing that the current economy led to the war in Gaza. Petro, a strong critic of Israel, announced on Thursday that Colombia was “stopping all arms purchases” from that country in response to the attack on the distribution of food and humanitarian aid in Gaza City (north), where more people died yesterday. About a hundred people and another 700 were injured.
At least 112 Gazans died and another 760 were injured on Al-Rashid Street, southeast of Gaza City, as they tried to pick up humanitarian aid from a convoy of 32 trucks in the hands of Hamas, according to the Gaza Strip Health Ministry were transported. Israel, which admitted that soldiers fired into the crowd, claims that most people suffocated or were run over by trucks driven by Gazan civilians.
Petro said the events in Gaza reflect that the world “can no longer insist on civilized international relations or on international law built on World War II and the ruins of the Nazis.” (Efe)