US EditionHague Group Meets in Colombia over Israel’s Gaza Genocide
BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA, JUL 17 – The Hague Group coalition aims to enforce International Criminal Court warrants and block arms shipments to Israel to address civilian casualties in Gaza, involving 30 countries.
- On 17 July 2025, Cardiff Council passed a motion to divest its pension fund from companies linked to Israel's alleged war crimes in Gaza, prompted by a petition from 1,200 local residents.
- This decision came after increasing international criticism, highlighted by a July gathering in Bogotá where Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, and other nations united to halt arms deliveries to Israel amid the intensifying violence in Gaza.
- Cardiff's pension fund holds £117m in 52 companies accused of breaching international law, including £4.9m in Israeli banks financing illegal settlements and £29m in Alphabet, which supports Israeli defense technologies.
- Colombia's Vice Minister Mauricio Jaramillo stated the coalition aims to “disrupt the flow of weapons” to Israel, while UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese warned Gaza faces “a genocide beyond dispute.”
- The council's move reflects wider international efforts to pressure complicit companies and states, signaling increased coordination for legal and diplomatic action against Israel's conduct in Gaza.
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Cardiff Council first in Wales to vote for pensions divestment from Israel
Cardiff Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) welcomes the motion passed at Cardiff Council meeting on Thursday 17 July (by 57 for, 4 against) on the topic of Gaza and divesting the council’s pension fund from complicity with Israel’s potential genocide and breaches in international law. This follows today’s submission to the same council meeting of a petition from 1,200 Cardiff residents calling to disinvest from Israel’s genocide and apartheid a…
Colombia must sever ties with NATO over genocide in Palestine -...
Colombia must cut ties with NATO as the leaders of the military bloc support "genocide" of Palestinians, President Gustavo Petro has declared. Colombia, a traditional US ally in South America, became the first country in the region to obtain the status of NATO global partner in 2017. Petro, who took office in 2022 as Colombia's first leftist president, severed diplomatic relations with Israel last year over what he describes as a genocide being …
Hague Group meets in Colombia over Israel’s Gaza genocide
Colombia has hosted a keynote meeting of the Hague Group this week with ministers and envoys from 30 countries working to coordinate legal and diplomatic action against Israel over its war in Gaza. The two-day summit in Bogotá involved eight founding members, Colombia, South Africa, Cuba, Bolivia, Namibia, Senegal, Malaysia and Honduras, who formed the coalition in January to defend international law and Palestinian rights. It marks the first ti…
Colombia's President, Gustavo Petro, announced at the International Conference on Gaza in Bogota today that his country will cease to be NATO's only global Latin American partner. (ANSA)
Wikimedia Photo The announcement was made directly by Colombian President Gustavo Petro, during the international summit on Gaza held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bogotá. "We must leave NATO; there is no other way. And the relationship with Europe cannot continue with governments that betray their own people and are helping to drop bombs. Colombian coal cannot turn into death in Gaza, it cannot become an Israeli bomb to kill children: t…
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