The Israeli Foreign Minister, Israel Katz, described this Wednesday (05/01/2024) the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, as an “anti-Semitic full of hate” after his announcement that the Latin American country will break relations with Israel on Thursday, May 2 for the “genocide” against the Palestinian people.
“The president of Colombia promised to reward the murderers and rapists of Hamas, and today he kept his promise. History will remember that Gustavo Petro decided to side with the most despicable monsters known to humanity who burned babies, murdered children, raped women and “they kidnapped innocent civilians”Katz said on the social network X, also in a message in Spanish.
The Israeli minister also recalled that relations between both countries have always been “warm” and that an “anti-Semitic and hateful president will not be able to change that.”
His message comes moments after Petro announced during a speech for International Workers’ Day, as he had already threatened on October 15, that Colombia will break diplomatic relations with Israel for having a government and “a genocidal president,” according to what he said. at an event in Bogotá.
“Today, all of humanity in the streets, by the millions, agrees with us and we with them,” said Petro, who stated that “it cannot be, it cannot return, the times of genocide, of the extermination of a entire town before our eyes, before our passivity”.
On March 26, Petro reiterated his desire to break ties with Israel if an “immediate truce was not reached during the month of Ramadan” in the Gaza Strip, as the UN Security Council had demanded.
“If Palestine dies, humanity dies and we are not going to let it die just as we are not going to let humanity die,” Petro cried on the May 1 stage, from where he also wanted to remember the Gazan children and babies “who have died.” dismembered by bombs”.
In almost seven months of war in Gaza, more than 34,500 Palestinians have died, including more than 14,000 children, according to data from the Gaza Health Ministry, which depends on the Hamas terrorist group.
