The government of Chili This Tuesday he joined the urgent call for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and urged Israel to comply with the laws that regulate armed conflicts and to exercise its defense “within the framework of international humanitarian law”.
“Chile supports the statements made on October 29 by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), indicating that Israel must comply with the legal obligations that emanate from the laws that regulate armed conflicts”The Chilean Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
“The legitimate self-defense of a State does not authorize the attack on civilians and must always be exercised within the framework of international humanitarian law”added the text.
In the bombings that Israel has carried out on Gaza since last October 7, when it was attacked by the Islamist Hamas militia, more than 8,300 people have died and more than 21,000 have been injured, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
The Israeli Army bombed the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing at least 145 people.
Among the victims, according to the Israeli Army, would be Ibrahim Biari, commander of the Central Jabaliya Battalion of Hamas and who was one of the commanders responsible for the attack on Israel, which left at least 1,400 dead and more than 200 Israelis kidnapped by the militia.
The Chilean Government also requested “redouble efforts to achieve a truce in hostilities, the protection and protection of innocent civilians and the urgent entry of humanitarian aid” in Gaza, while demanding the “immediate” release of those kidnapped by Hamas.
With nearly 500,000 people, Chile is a great refuge for the Palestinian community outside the Arab world, a migration that began at the end of the 19th century, when hundreds of Palestinians first escaped Ottoman domination, and which increased in the 20th century. with the Israeli occupation.
Chile recognized Palestine as a State “free, independent and sovereign” in 2011, during the first government of conservative Sebastián Piñera, and the current president, the progressive Gabriel Boric, is a recognized defender of the Palestinian cause and visited the country in 2018 when he was a deputy.
“Chile recognizes the right of the State of Israel and the State of Palestine to coexist in peace, within mutually agreed upon and internationally recognized secure borders, in accordance with the provisions of the resolutions adopted by United Nations”, concluded the statement.
Source: Gestion
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