Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro assured that his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, is a “madman” who is “killing many people” in Gaza in the style of Herod, during an intervention in Caracas at the Venezuela Book Fair (FILVE). .

“Today we see a crazy man who is Netanyahu,” Petro said during the presentation of his latest book, “One Life, Many Lives,” where he also criticized the United States for supporting Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip because “the Israeli capital owns the American banks.” US”.

“They don’t realize that they are killing a lot of people, not just people, babies,” Petro continued, likening it to “a mighty Herod killing and murdering children on earth.”

The Colombian president, who has actively participated in the Palestinian cause and has pledged to bring Israel to the International Criminal Court for war crimes, addressed world leaders this week at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (APEC, in its acronym in English ). ), including the American Joe Biden, because of his role in the war.

The Colombian president had already made a similar call in Washington on November 3 during a meeting with several leaders from the region at the White House.

“I told Biden that the massacre could no longer be allowed,” Petro reported after the meeting, emphasizing – again – that “the collapse of international law that we are considering is causing more violence, more barbarity and democratic destruction.”

Petro publishes daily messages defending the Palestinian cause on the social network X and harshly criticizing Israel for the bombing of the Gaza Strip. Netanyahu, for example, has been accused of unleashing “carnage.”

In his messages, he also several times compared the situation in Gaza as a result of the Israeli bombings to the Nazi concentration camps of World War II, leading the Jewish State to describe his statements as “hostile and anti-Semitic.”

For its part, Israel’s government is also criticizing Petro for not explicitly condemning the October 7 terrorist attacks against that country by the armed wing of Hamas, amid a scuffle that has brought relations to the brink of diplomatic breakdown has brought.

In this context, Petro also announced that he will propose to the United Nations the admission of Palestine as a full member and will stop buying weapons from countries that have not supported the proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza in that organization . (JO)