[News] 'No nation is above the law': Colombia to host international summit against Israeli impunity

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 'No nation is above the law': Colombia to host international summit
against Israeli impunity

Bogota will include over 20 nations as part of The Hague Group’s campaign
to confront Israeli war crimes in Gaza through coordinated legal,
diplomatic, and economic action

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JUL 11, 2025 -
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(Photo Credit: Presidencia de Colombia)

More than 20 states will gather in Bogota on 15–16 July to declare
“concrete measures” against Israel’s violations of international law,
according to diplomats speaking to *Middle East Eye*
<https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/spain-and-ireland-join-more-20-states-declare-concrete-measures-against-israel>
.

The summit, co-chaired by Colombia and South Africa, will bring together
members and supporters of The Hague Group, a bloc launched in January to
confront what it calls “a climate of impunity” surrounding Israel’s actions
in Gaza.

The group includes Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, Malaysia, Namibia,
Senegal, and South Africa, with additional countries such as Spain,
Ireland, Turkiye, Portugal, China, Qatar, Algeria, Bangladesh, Brazil,
Chile, Indonesia, Lebanon, Nicaragua, Oman, Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines, Uruguay, and Palestine set to attend.

Colombian Vice-Minister of Multilateral Affairs Mauricio Jaramillo Jassir
said the summit would not only reaffirm the group’s resistance to the
ongoing “Palestinian genocide,” but also outline specific steps to move
from words to collective action.

“Colombia cannot be indifferent in the face of apartheid and ethnic
cleansing,” he said.

The conference will be hosted at the Museo Nacional de Colombia under the
banner Collective Action in Defense of Palestine, with keynote remarks to
be delivered by UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese – who
was recently sanctioned
<https://thecradle.co/articles/us-sanctions-francesca-albanese-for-exposing-western-profiteering-from-gaza-genocide>
by the US for what US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called a “campaign of
political and economic warfare against the United States and Israel.”

Other speakers include UK parliamentarian Jeremy Corbyn, EU lawmaker Rima
Hassan, and Andres Macias Tolosa of the UN Working Group on Mercenaries.
Colombia’s Minister of Culture, Yannai Kadamani Fonrodona, will also
participate.

South Africa’s Minister of International Relations, Roland Lamola, stated
the summit will send a clear message that “no nation is above the law, and
no crime will go unanswered.”

Since its formation, The Hague Group has coordinated legal challenges
against Israel, including South Africa’s genocide case at the International
Court of Justice (ICJ).

Namibia and Malaysia blocked arms shipments to Israel, while Colombia
severed diplomatic ties and suspended coal exports.

The summit is expected to deepen and unify these efforts.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro, writing in *The Guardian*, announced the
conference and warned that “without decisive action, we risk stripping the
global legal order of its remaining protections for less-privileged
nations.”

He urged states to act collectively to halt Israel’s destruction of Gaza
and restore the foundations of international law.
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