“Israel hopes that Colombia and Chile will support the right of a democratic country to protect its citizens and demand the immediate release of those abducted in Gaza.”that they do not join Venezuela and Iran in supporting Hamas terrorisma spokesperson for Israel’s Foreign Ministry said in the country’s first response to the steps taken today by the two Latin American countries.
As he noted in what is the first official Israeli response to the matter, in the “gruesome attack” from the Islamist group Hamas to Israel on October 7, killing more than 1,400 and leading to the hostage taking of some 240, “citizens of Colombia, Chile and other Latin American countries are also among the victims.”
“The State of Israel is waging a war that has been imposed on it, a war against a terrorist organization that uses the citizens of Gaza as human shields, commits crimes of war and crimes against humanity, and violates the human rights of the citizens of Gaza, as well as of the citizens of Israel,” Foreign Affairs spokesperson Lior Hayat criticized.
Source: El heraldo
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