Colombia, South Africa, Malaysia, Bolivia, Honduras, Senegal, Cuba, Namibia and Belice have announced today the foundation of the Hague Group, an initiative promoted by the Progressive International organization, with the aim of coordinating joint measures to defend international law against international front against the front international law to the violations committed by Israel, after fifteen months of massacres against the population of Gaza.
Several ministers and ambassadors representing these nine countries have gathered in the Dutch city of The Hague, headquarters of the two international courts, where they have exposed the steps they will take to try to put an end to the illegal Israeli occupation, guarantee the Palestinian rights, facilitate “Israel’s accountability before its violations” and work for an international order based on a “peaceful coexistence and cooperation between states.”
In that sense, the Hague Group It undertakes to “maintain arrest orders against Israeli leaders issued by the International Criminal Court” and “prevent the supply or transfer of armament and military material” to Israel, as well as the ship scale with that type of cargo or fuel that could be used to commit or facilitate crimes against the Palestinian population.
In addition, they announce that “other effective measures” will be adopted and invite all states to be integrated into the initiative. Asked by eldiario.es, a spokesman for Progressive International has indicated that, in addition to public calling, they have directly contacted several countries, including Spain, inviting them to join.
The group undertakes to prevent the supply of weapons and the ship scale with fuel or military material for Israel
“Measures according to international law and the intention of this group can be adopted, we maintain our invitations to Ireland, to the countries of the Global South, we intend to join more nations, at least those that voted in favor of the resolution From the United Nations General Assembly last September, ”said the General Coordinator of International Progressive, Warsha Gandikota-Ennellutla during the press conference.
The resolution referred to is A/res/ES-10/24approved last September. It is required The end of Israeli illegal occupation within twelve months and the SUSPENSION OF COMMERCE AND INVESTMENTS that can somehow contribute the illegal occupation of Gaza, Bank and East Jerusalem. There are few countries that have launched these measures, despite the fact that 124 nations voted in favor, including Spain.
During the press conference, the responsibility of great powers that have facilitated the genocide in Gaza, “in particular the United States, but also European countries such as the United Kingdom, France or Germany, among others, have been mentioned several times” has The Belize ambassador indicated. Progressive International spokeswoman said that “that complicity has devastated the integrity and capacity of the United Nations and international institutions.”
The international community must join to protect Palestinian rights just as it joined to dismantle apartheid in South Africa
Progressive International, Civil Organization promoting the initiative
“Just as the international community once joined to dismantle apartheid in South Africa, we must now unite to enforce international law and protect the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to self -determination,” he said.
The Palestinian Ambassador to the Netherlands and the journalist of Gaza have also participated in the event AHMED ALNAUQwho has lost more than twenty relatives, including his father, his three sisters, his two brothers and fourteen nephews, all children under fifteen.
“They were massacred in an Israeli attack. This is just a story. Thousands of Palestinian families have been killed in the same way. Israeli occupation and blockade killed my mother in 2020 delaying its possibility of leaving Gaza to access cancer treatment, as has happened to many other Palestinians, ”he explained. “All this happens because there was never accountability, so it is repeated. After many decades of evasion of responsibility from Israel, this initiative is a ray of hope. ”
During the fifteen months of Israeli genocide in Gaza, two hundred and six reporters have died, the highest figure in history in a conflict since this data is counted.
An Israeli attack killed my father, my 5 brothers and sisters and several nephews and nephews, all minors
Ahmed Alnaouq, journalist of Gaza, in the presentation of the Hague Group
“The violations of Israel go beyond the mass murder and the persecution of Palestinians,” said the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim, one of the members of the newly founded group. “They hit the foundational bases of international law, which the global community has the duty to defend.”
“The formation of the Hague group marks a before and after in the global response to the exceptionality and increased erosion of international law. Send a clear message: no nation is above the law and no crime can be left unanswered, ”explained the Minister of International Relations of South Africa, Ronald Lamola.
In the same line, the Minister of Justice of Namibia has been expressed, Yvonne Dausab: “The world cannot be observed, when we adopt a commitment 75 years ago that the world would never suffer atrocities, all lives matter, Palestinian lives import ”
The representatives of Colombia, Honduras, Bolivia, Cuba, South Africa, Malaysia, Belize, Namibia and Senegal have remembered the importance of fulfilling the opinions and measures of the International Courts of The Hague, fifteen months after the start of a massacre that has killed Tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, while the Israeli attacks in the West Bank and the illegal occupation of the territory continue.
Today there are few countries that comply with the opinion of the International Court of Justice last July, which requested the UN Member States that suspend trade and investments that contribute somehow to the illegal Israeli occupation. As for the arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu, issued by the International Criminal Court, both the United States and some European countries have questioned its validity, although it remains in force.
The nations that now found the Hague Group have already taken steps against Israeli impunity and in favor of the implementation of international law in this last year. Belize, Colombia and Bolivia have broken their diplomatic relations with Israel, Colombia has also suspended the purchase of weapons and exports of coal and Chile called consultations to its ambassador to Tel Aviv and presented a letter about the situation in Palestine before the International Criminal Court in January 2024.
Honduras has constantly condemned the genocide against the Palestinian people, “Malaysia does not maintain diplomatic relations with Tel Aviv and prevents rooting ships linked to Israel and South Africa in its ports is the country promoter of the case against Israel before the International Court of Justice for violations of the Genocide Convention.
The event has been attended, in a sample of support, members of independent commissions of the United Nations, Human Rights Lawyers, MEP and deputies from five countries, including the members of adding, Podemos, Los Commons and IU Estrella Galán, Isa Serra, Gerardo Pisarello and Enrique Santiago, as well as the former mayor of Barcelona Ada Colau.
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