Colombia “strongly” condemns the attack on a hospital in Gaza that left more than 500 people dead

He Colombian government condemned “tightly“the attack on Al Ahli Hospitallocated in the Strip Linkwhich left more than 500 people dead this Tuesday and reiterated its call for an end to hostilities between the two parties.

“Colombia joins the urgent appeal of the different United Nations Organizations (WHO, UNICEF), which considers it necessary to protect civilians in the midst of conflict, as well as respect for International human law (IHL), which states that health care must be actively protected and never targeted”, said Itamaraty in a statement.

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At least 500 people were killed by the Strip’s Ministry of Health after the bombing of this hospital, which represents the biggest massacre in the region. Link of the five wars that took place between Palestinian militias and Israel since 2008.

It is also the attack with the highest number of fatalities committed so far, since the war broke out on October 7 between the Palestinian militias in Gaza and Israel, which has already accumulated more than 3,000 deaths in Gaza and 1,400 deaths in Israeli territory.

According to local sources, at the health center – a Christian institution belonging to Anglican Church– Around 2,000 people took refuge from the bombings after evacuating their homes in recent days, a dynamic that has been seen in most hospitals in the Strip.

Itamaraty took the opportunity to request once again that “Hostilities between the parties must end immediately, in order to resume peace negotiations that stabilize the situation and lead to the coexistence of the two States.”.

This is the first statement by the Colombian Government regarding this attack, which organizations have already described as a serious attack on IHL, since hospitals are not military objectives, and which comes after an unusual silence from the president, Gustavo Pedro.

The president, since the attacks by the Islamic group began Hamas against Israel and this State’s response against Gaza, has been very likely to support the Palestinian cause and publish hundreds of messages on its social networks.

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On Sunday, he even threatened to break diplomatic relations with Israel in response to that country’s decision to suspend exports of security material due to its position on the new war in the region.

“If we have to suspend foreign relations with Israel, we will suspend them. We do not support genocide. To the president of Colombia he is not insulted”, wrote Petro on the social network X (formerly Twitter).

The president called “for Latin America to true solidarity with Colombia. If you are unable to do so, it will be the development of the story that will say the last word, as in great chaco war” he said in an apparent reference to the conflict between Paraguay It is Boliviafought between 1932 and 1935, but without explaining the relationship with the current situation.

Source: Elcomercio

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