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https://www.commondreams.org/news/hague-group-summit-colombia
At Hague Group Emergency Summit, 30+ Nations Seek to 'Halt the Genocide
in Gaza'
Host nation Colombia's deputy foreign minister said participants "will
not only reaffirm their commitment to opposing genocide, but also
formulate concrete steps to move from words to collective action."
Brett Wilkins
Jul 15, 2025
Ministerial delegates from more than 30 nations gathered in the
Colombian capital Bogotá Tuesday for an emergency summit focused on
"concrete measures" to end Israel's U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza and
other crimes against occupied Palestine.
The two-day Hague Group summit ultimately aims to "halt the genocide in
Gaza" and is led by co-chairs Colombia—which last year severed
diplomatic relations with Israel—and South Africa, which filed the
ongoing genocide case against Israel at the International Court of
Justice (ICJ) joined by around two dozen countries. Progressive
International first convened the Hague Group in January in the eponymous
Dutch city, which is home to both the ICJ and International Criminal
Court (ICC), whose rulings the coalition is dedicated to upholding.
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"This summit marks a turning point in the global response to the erosion
and violation of international law," South African Minister of
International Relations and Cooperation Ronald Lamola said ahead of the gathering. "No country is above the law, and no crime will go unanswered."
Colombian Deputy Foreign Minister Mauricio Jaramillo Jassir said before
the summit: "The Palestinian genocide threatens the entire international system. Colombia cannot remain indifferent in the face of apartheid and
ethnic cleansing. The participating states will not only reaffirm their commitment to opposing genocide, but also formulate concrete steps to
move from words to collective action."
That action includes enforcement of ICC arrest warrants issued last year
for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, his
former defense minister, for alleged crimes against humanity and war
crimes in Gaza including murder and forced starvation in a war that has
left more than 211,000 Palestinians dead, maimed, or missing since
October 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
Hague Group members Bolivia, Cuba, Honduras, Malaysia, Namibia, and
Senegal will attend the summit. Algeria, Bangladesh, Botswana, Brazil,
Chile, China, Djibouti, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Lebanon, Libya,
Mexico, Nicaragua, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Qatar, Saint Vincent and
the Grenadines, Uruguay, and Venezuela will also take part.
Notably, so will NATO members and U.S. allies Norway, Portugal,
Slovenia, Spain, and Turkey. Like Israel, the United States denies there
is a genocide in Gaza, despite growing international consensus among
human rights defenders, jurists, and genocide experts including some of
the leading Holocaust scholars in Israel and the United States.
A spokesperson for the U.S. State Department—which has sanctioned ICC
judges and United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese for seeking accountability for Israeli crimes—told Jewish News Syndicate Monday that the United States
"strongly opposes efforts by so-called 'multilateral blocs' to weaponize international law as a tool to advance radical anti-Western agendas."
The spokesperson added that the Trump administration "will aggressively
defend our interests, our military, and our allies, including Israel,
from such coordinated legal and diplomatic warfare," even as U.S. allies
take part in the summit.
Undaunted by U.S. sanctions, Albanese is among several U.N. experts who
spoke at the summit, which she hailed as "the most significant political development in the past 20 months."
In prepared remarks, Albanese—who earlier this month said that "Israel
is responsible for one of the cruelest genocides in modern history"—told attendees that "for too long, international law has been treated as optional—applied selectively to those perceived as weak, ignored by
those acting as the powerful."
"This double standard has eroded the very foundations of the legal
order," she argued. "That era must end."
According to Albanese:
The world will remember what we, states and individuals, did in this moment—whether we recoiled in fear or rose in defense of human dignity.
Here in Bogotá, a growing number of states have the opportunity to break
the silence and revert to a path of legality by finally saying: Enough.
Enough impunity. Enough empty rhetoric. Enough exceptionalism. Enough complicity. The time has come to act in pursuit of justice and
peace—grounded in rights and freedoms for all, and not mere privileges
for some, at the expense of the annihilation of others.
The Israeli Mission to the United Nations told Jewish News Syndicate
that "what the event organizers, and perhaps some of the countries
attending, forget is what triggered this conflict—namely, the butchering
of 1,200 innocent souls on October 7, and how 50 Israelis remain in
brutal captivity to this day by Hamas in Gaza."
"Attempting to exert pressure on Israel—and not Hamas, who initiated and
are prolonging this conflict—is a moral travesty," the mission added.
"The war will not end while hostages remain in Gaza."
In addition to the ICC warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant, the ICJ—whose ruling in the genocide case is not expected for years—has ordered Israel
to prevent genocidal acts in Gaza, to stop blocking lifesaving
humanitarian aid from entering the strip, and to halt its assault on
Rafah. Israel has ignored all three orders.
"The choice before us is stark and unforgiving," Colombian President
Gustavo Petro wrote in The Guardian last week. "We can either stand firm
in defense of the legal principles that seek to prevent war and
conflict, or watch helplessly as the international system collapses
under the weight of unchecked power politics."
"While we may face threats of retaliation when we stand up for
international law—as South Africa discovered when the United States retaliated for its case at the International Court of Justice—the consequences of abdicating our responsibilities will be dire," Petro
continued. "If we fail to act now, we not only betray the Palestinian
people, we become complicit in the atrocities committed by Netanyahu's government."
"For the billions of people in the Global South who rely on
international law for protection, the stakes could not be higher," he
added. "The Palestinian people deserve justice. The moment demands courage."
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First we will destroy your identity. Then we will teach you your past
was evil. You will conclude yourself that your inheritance, your
homeland, your ancestors and your people are underserving of it all.
Then we will complete your dispossession and dissolve you into the final
phase of the Kalergi Plan.
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