The Venezuelan president has slammed Israel’s long-running aggression on the Gaza Strip, stressing that silence in the face of crimes by the “Nazi-Zionism” in the besieged Palestinian territory is a “moral crime.”
Nicolas Maduro made the statement at the Bogota summit on Tuesday, which was held in the Colombian capital with the aim of seeking and coordinating legal and diplomatic measures against Israel’s genocidal war in the Gaza Strip.
“Every bomb dropped on a Palestinian hospital, school, or home not only kills innocent lives, but also undermines the foundations of world peace and accelerates the moral collapse of the international order,” Maduro said.
The Venezuelan president underlined that the gathering serves as “a moral and political response to the atrocities being committed against the Palestinian people amid unprecedented impunity.”
Maduro urged the international community to break its complicit silence in the face of the Israeli “killing machine.”
“We raise our voices with determination and anger at the world’s silence in the face of the ongoing genocide against the Palestinians,” Maduro said, emphasizing that the situation in Gaza and across Palestine “is not a conflict between equal parties, but a systematic plan to destroy a people and erase their identity.”
The Venezuelan leader affirmed “Palestine’s right to exist, to resist, and to live freely within a fully sovereign state” with East al-Quds as its capital, reiterating his country’s full and unwavering support for the Palestinian cause and its people.
Warning that the Israeli campaign threatens the world, he stated, “The massacre against the people of Palestine is a massacre against all of us. It is a massacre as a show of force, so that the people of the world will surrender.”
The Venezuelan president said “Nazi-Zionism” was seeking to destroy institutions such as the UN and suppress global awareness, noting that the Israeli regime’s goal is “to silence our voice, the voice of all our rebellious peoples.”
Maduro added that “sooner rather than later we will witness the victory of truth and the Palestinian people’s life.”
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been waging a genocidal war in Gaza, including killing, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, ignoring all international appeals and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt the assault.
The genocide has left more than 197,000 dead and wounded, most of them women and children, and more than 11,000 missing. Hundreds of thousands have been displaced, and famine has claimed the lives of many, including dozens of children.
The usurping entity accepted longstanding negotiation terms by the Hamas resistance group under the Gaza ceasefire, which began on January 19.
On March 18, however, Israel unilaterally broke the truce and resumed its relentless bombing of Gaza.
