Delegates from 30 countries gathered in Bogotá, Colombia, Tuesday for an emergency conference on the situation in Gaza. The conference is led by South Africa and Colombia, two members of the Hague Group, a coalition of nations that pledged to cut military sales to Israel and to comply with an International Criminal Court arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. On Tuesday, Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, told the conference that all nations are obliged to take action against Israel’s occupation and the slaughter of Palestinians.
Francesca Albanese: “Each state must immediately review and suspend all ties with the state of Israel, military, strategic, political, diplomatic, economic relations, both imports and exports, and to make sure that their private sectors, insurers, banks, pension funds, universities and other goods and service providers in the supply chain do the same.”
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