The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petrodescribed the Prime Minister of Israel as a “criminal”, Benjamin Netanyahufor what he described as the “genocide in Gaza,” during his speech to the UN General Assembly this Tuesday.
In the world there is a logic “of massive destruction, unleashed in the climate crisis and the logic of the bombs that a criminal like Netanyahu drops on Gaza,” the left-wing president, a harsh critic of the Israeli government, declared in New York.
“Netanyahu is a hero for the richest 1% of humanity, because he is capable of showing that people are destroyed under bombs,” he insisted. Petrowhich broke diplomatic relations with Israel in May.
The UN Assembly was dominated this Tuesday by fear of a regional war in the Middle East, following the intensification of the military escalation between the Israeli army and the pro-Iranian Islamist movement Hezbollah in Lebanon.
In his speech, Petro criticized the fact that wars do not end or actions are taken against the climate crisis.
“If we ask that debt be exchanged for climate action, powerful minorities do not listen to us. If we ask that they stop wars to concentrate on the rapid transformation of the world’s economy in order to save life and the human species, they will not listen to us either,” said Petro, with a pin on his suit at COP16, the conference on biodiversity that will host Colombia in a month.
“It is the power of destruction of life that gives volume to the voice in the United Nations premises and brings together the majority of its representatives,” the Colombian president complained.
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