2023-11-01 23:41:18
The Israeli authorities have called on the governments of Chile and Colombia this Wednesday to “explicitly condemn” the terrorist actions of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and request the release of hostages held captive since October 7.
The spokesperson for the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Lior Haiat, has released a publication in Spanish on his official social networks in which he assures that Colombian, Chilean and other Latin American citizens also died during the Hamas offensive at the beginning of October.
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Likewise, Haiat has demanded that Colombia and Chile “support the right of a democratic country to protect its citizens” and that “they do not align themselves with Venezuela and Iran”, countries that he has accused of “supporting Hamas terrorism.” .
Israel has thus responded to the decision taken this morning by the authorities of Chile and later Colombia, who have chosen to call their respective ambassadors in Israel for consultations in protest of the “massacre of the Palestinian people” perpetrated by the Israeli Army. .
“The State of Israel is in a war that was imposed on it. A war against a terrorist organization that uses civilians from the Gaza Strip as human shields, commits war crimes and crimes against humanity and violates the Human Rights of civilians in Gaza and civilians in Israel,” reads Haiat’s writing. .
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The president of Chile, Gabriel Boric, and later his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro, called their respective ambassadors in Israel for consultations on Tuesday night in protest of the massacres of civilians perpetrated by the Israeli Army in the Gaza Strip. in the context of the current war in the Middle East.
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