Multipolar Global South Rising Against Gaza Genocide

The Hague Group Statement

“The choice is stark: Either we act together to enforce international law, or we risk its collapse. We choose to act, not only for the people of Gaza but for the future of a world where justice prevails over impunity. Let this moment mark the beginning of a renewed commitment to internationalism and the principles that bind us as a global community.”

CYRIL RAMAPHOSA, PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA

ANWAR IBRAHIM, PRIME MINISTER OF MALAYSIA

GUSTAVO PETRO, PRESIDENT OF COLOMBIA

FOTO: Bolivian President demands effective action against Israeli war crimes of Netanyahu at 2025 July Bogota Hague Group Summit

2025 July Bogota Human Rights Summit against Israel’s Gaza Genocide

Global South The Hague Group of countries challenges US-led Global North’s support and protection of the Zionist Israeli killer state’s Gaza Genocide operations.

July 2025 Bogota, Colombia Emergency Conference to end US-backed Israeli Gaza Genocide Operations

The Hague Group coordinated the July 2025 Bogota, Colombia Emergency Conference, which brought together representatives from over 30 states, including China, Brazil, Spain, Mexico, Turkey, and Qatar. Initially formed by Colombia and South Africa, the group seeks to establish specific sanctions against Israel that, according to Colombia’s Vice Minister for Multilateral Affairs, Mauricio Jaramillo Jassir, aim to take effective action to end the US-backed Zionist Israeli terror state’s Gaza Genocide operations.

12 countries announce Israel sanctions and renewed legal action to end Gaza genocide organized by The Hague Group of countries established in South Africa on 31 January 2025. Original Eight Hague Group member states — Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, Malaysia, Namibia, Senegal, and South Africa — gathered in The Hague, Netherlands to take “coordinated legal and diplomatic measures” against Israel’s violations of international law.

Albanese gave extensive concluding remarks The Hague Group emergency conference in Bogotá, Colombia.

Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories spoke as a keynote speaker on her recent Genocide Report and the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Albanese is currently facing harsh sanctions imposed by MAGA Zionist Trump's government for making antisemitic remarks, after publishing her extensive Genocide Report and repeatedly denouncing the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the US-backed Israeli torture/terror regime against the Palestinian people.

“The era of impunity must end— and that international law must be enforced.”

The United Nations’s special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territory has said that it is time for nations around the world to take concrete actions to stop Israel’s “genocide” in Gaza.

Francesca Albanese spoke to delegates from 30 countries meeting in Colombia’s capital, Bogota, on Tuesday to discuss Israel’s brutal assault and ways nations can try to stop the offensive in the besieged enclave.

Heads of state and their representatives emphasized that these sanctions are not retaliatory but are in full compliance with international humanitarian law.

They are part of the international community’s commitment to ending the genocide and advocated for more states and World Community to join in this effort and uphold their duty to defend human rights.

All 30 participating states unanimously agreed that “the era of impunity must end— and that international law must be enforced.”

12 of the participating states have committed to implementing the Bogota key points

12 states from across the world — Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Indonesia, Iraq, Libya, Malaysia, Namibia, Nicaragua, Oman, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and South Africa — committed to implementing six key points:

1. Prevent the provision or transfer of arms, munitions, military fuel, related military equipment, and dual-use items to Israel, as appropriate, to ensure that our industry does not contribute the tools to enable or facilitate genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other violations of international law.

2. Prevent the transit, docking, and servicing of vessels at any port, if applicable, within our territorial jurisdiction, while being fully compliant with applicable international law, including UNCLOS, in all cases where there is a clear risk of the vessel being used to carry arms, munitions, military fuel, related military equipment, and dual-use items to Israel, to ensure that our territorial waters and ports do not serve as conduits for activities that enable or facilitate genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other violations of international law.

3. Prevent the carriage of arms, munitions, military fuel, related military equipment, and dual-use items to Israel on vessels bearing our flag, while being fully compliant with applicable international law, including UNCLOS, ensuring full accountability, including de-flagging, for non-compliance with this prohibition, not to render aid or assistance in maintaining the situation created by Israel’s illegal presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

4. Commence an urgent review of all public contracts, in order to prevent public institutions and public funds, where applicable, from supporting Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian Territory which may entrench its unlawful presence in the territory, to ensure that our nationals, and companies and entities under our jurisdiction, as well as our authorities, do not act in any way that would entail recognition or provide aid or assistance in maintaining the situation created by Israel’s illegal presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

5. Comply with our obligations to ensure accountability for the most serious crimes under international law through robust, impartial and independent investigations and prosecutions at national or international levels, in compliance with our obligation to ensure justice for all victims and the prevention of future crimes.

6. Support universal jurisdiction mandates, as and where applicable in our legal constitutional frameworks and judiciaries, to ensure justice for all victims and the prevention of future crimes in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

Bogota Hague Group actions are part of an international effort to break the global silence that has enabled atrocities in Palestine

Jaramillo and Zane Dangor, Director-General of South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Cooperation, emphasized that these actions are not reprisals, but specifically part of an international effort to break the global silence that has enabled atrocities in Palestine.

Economic Embargoes and Sanctions Against the Israeli Regime

In his closing speech, Colombian President Gustavo Petro reaffirmed that Colombia would break all arms trade relations with Israel and would continue to support the Palestinian people’s right to resist.

FOTO: Colombian President Gustavo Petro

This decision is aligned with President Petro’s renewed order to halt all coal exports from Colombia to Israel: “My government was betrayed, and that betrayal, among other things, cast doubt on my order to stop exporting coal to Israel. We are the world’s fifth-largest coal exporter, which means the country of life is helping to kill humanity. Colombian coal is still being shipped to Israel. We prohibited it, and yet we are being tricked into violating that decision. We cannot allow Colombian coal to be turned into bombs that help Israel kill children.”

"We need the bravery to take the necessary actions”

The legitimacy of the Hague Group decisions by international law and several multilateral organizations

FOTO: Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla, Executive Secretary of the Hague Group

The legitimacy of the Hague Group's decisions backed by several multilateral organizations that have denounced the genocide. As Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla, Executive Secretary of the Hague Group, stated: “The International Criminal Court (ICC) has already clearly denounced the genocide. The United Nations has stated that Gaza is the hungriest place on Earth. What we lack now is not clarity, it’s courage. We need the bravery to take the necessary actions”.

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Mansour, together with the Madrid Group (a coalition of over 20 European and Arab countries also taking action against Israel and led by Spain), that these states could be the key to breaking Israel’s genocidal siege: “This will not be an exercise in theatrical politics. The time has come for concrete, effective action to stop the crimes and end the profiteering from genocide. We will defeat these crimes against humanity and give the children who are still alive in Palestine a future full of promise, independence, and dignity. Recognizing Palestine is not a symbolic gesture; it is a concrete act of resistance against colonial expansion”.

Mansour's statement was followed by that of Palestinian American doctor Thaer Ahmad, who worked in Nasser Hospital in Gaza and left the territory two months ago. Ahmad testified that official death tolls do not even come close to reality, that Gaza is currently hell on Earth, and that every day the genocide continues brings devastating consequences for Palestinian children: “How can we look ourselves in the mirror? When this ends, if it ends, what will we say? ‘Sorry, we did everything we could’? They can’t afford to keep waiting for vague responses. They are surviving genocide every day. So now, how do we ensure that the effort to erase Palestinians from history does not succeed?”

“A historical turning point that ends, with concrete measures," Albanese

Although the agreed-upon points and actions are significant, broader and more forceful measures are required. A day earlier, at the Colombia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Francesca Albanese reaffirmed the historic importance of this Bogota Hague Group event: “A historical turning point that ends, with concrete measures, the genocide-based economy that has sustained Israel. I came to this meeting believing that the narrative is shifting. Hope must be a discipline that we all preserve.”

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BACKGROUND ON THE HAGUE GROUP

THE HAGUE GROUP

Hague Group States Coordinate Measures Against Israel’s Violations of International Law

The Hague Group is a global bloc of states committed to “coordinated legal and diplomatic measures” in defense of international law and solidarity with the people of Palestine.

The Hague Group was established on 31 January 2025.

The Hague Group was established on 31 January 2025. Eight nations — Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, Malaysia, Namibia, Senegal, and South Africa — united in the Netherlands to take “coordinated legal and diplomatic measures” against Israel’s violations of international law.

Now, the Hague Group is growing — with an open invitation to states across the world to stand up for the people of Palestine

Secretariat of The Hague Group

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INAUGURAL JOINT STATEMENT

The Hague Group, January 31, 2025

We, the Representatives from the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Republic of Colombia, Republic of Cuba, Republic of Honduras, Malaysia, Republic of Namibia, Republic of Senegal and Republic of South Africa in The Hague, Netherlands, on this 31st day of January 2025, inaugurate The Hague Group,

Guided by the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, and the responsibility of all nations to uphold the inalienable rights, including the right to self-determination, that it enshrines for all peoples,

Grieving the lives, livelihoods, communities, and cultural heritage lost due to Israel, the occupying power’s genocidal actions in Gaza and the remainder of the Occupied Palestinian Territory against the Palestinian people,

Refusing to remain passive in the face of such international crimes,

Determined to uphold our obligations to end the Israeli occupation of the State of Palestine and support the realisation of the inalienable right of the Palestinian People to self-determination, including the right to their independent State of Palestine,

Recalling

the orders of the International Court of Justice in the case of South Africa v. Israel of 29 December 2023, which reflect a serious concern about the perpetration of crimes of genocide in Palestine, and noting the significant and diverse number of States that have joined as third States in the case, to demand the condemnation and immediate cessation of the ongoing genocide,.

the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice of 19 July 2024 on the ‘Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem’,

and the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice of 9 July 2004 ‘’Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory’’

the United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/RES/Es-10/24, adopted on 18 September 2024 at the Tenth Emergency Special Session, which endorsed the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion of July 2024, and the commitments of member states to comply with the obligations under international law as reflected in the advisory opinion,

the International Criminal Court’s issuance on 21 November 2024 of warrants of arrest for indicating “reasonable grounds to believe that Mr Netanyahu and Mr Gallant each bear criminal responsibility as civilian superiors for the war crime of intentionally directing an attack against the civilian population...the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare...and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts”.

the order of the International Court of Justice in Nicaragua v. Germany of 30 April 2024 “remind[ing] all States of their international obligations relating to the transfer of arms to parties to an armed conflict, in order to avoid the risk that such arms might be used to violate” the Genocide Convention and the Geneva Conventions in relation to Israel’s conduct in Gaza and the remainder of the Occupied Palestinian Territory,

the United Nations Security Council Resolution 418 of 4 November 1977, and United Nations Security Council Resolution 591 of 28 November 1986, that “imposed a mandatory arms embargo” against Apartheid South Africa.

all the relevant resolutions of the Security Council, including resolution 2334 (2016) of 23 December 2016, which reaffirmed that “the establishment by Israel of settlements in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, has no legal validity and constitutes a flagrant violation under international law”;

Stressing that the legal norms violated by Israel include certain obligations of an erga omnes character that are, by their very nature, the concern of all States and, in view of the importance of the rights involved, all States can be held to have a legal interest in their protection,

Emphasizing the need to ensure accountability for the most serious crimes under international law through appropriate, fair and independent investigations and prosecutions at the national or international level, and to ensure justice for all victims and the prevention of future crimes;

Convinced that collective action through coordinated legal and diplomatic measures at both national and international levels is an urgent imperative to uphold the principles of justice and accountability that form the foundation of the UN Charter,

Declare our intention to:

1. Uphold the UN Resolution A/RES/Es-10/24 and, in the case of States Parties, support the requests of the International Criminal Court and comply with our obligations under the Rome Statute, with regards to the warrants issued on 21 November 2024; and implement the provisional measures of the International Court of Justice, issued on 26 January, 28 March, and 24 May 2024.

2. Prevent provision or transfer of arms, munitions and related equipment to Israel, in all cases where there is a clear risk that such arms and related items might be used to commit or facilitate violations of humanitarian law, international human rights law, or the prohibition on genocide, in compliance with our international obligations and consistent with the International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion of 19 July 2024 and the UN General Assembly Resolution A/RES/Es-10/24.

3. Prevent the docking of vessels at any port, if applicable, within our territorial jurisdiction, in all cases where there is a clear risk of the vessel being used to carry military fuel and weaponry to Israel, which might be used to commit or facilitate violations of humanitarian law, of international human rights law, and of the prohibition on genocide in Palestine, in keeping with states’ peremptory legal obligation to cooperate towards preventing genocide and other violations of peremptory norms by all legal measures at their disposal.

We will take further effective measures to end Israeli occupation of the State of Palestine and remove obstacles to the realisation of the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination, including the right to their independent State of Palestine.

We invite all states to take all possible actions and policies to end Israel’s occupation of the State of Palestine.

We call on all nations to join us in The Hague Group in the solemn commitment to an international order based on the rule of law and international law, which, together with the principles of justice, is essential for peaceful coexistence and cooperation among States.

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Nine countries form Hague Group as Belize joins Gaza genocide case against Israel

South Africa lodged proceedings against Israel in December 2023 over the regime’s violations of the Genocide Convention in relation to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Several countries have since joined the case and formed the “Hague Group” in defense of Palestinians, including Nicaragua, Colombia, Cuba, Libya, Mexico, Palestine, Spain, and Turkey.

“Hague Group” in defense of Palestinians, including

Nicaragua,

Colombia,

Cuba,

Libya,

Mexico,

Palestine,

Spain,

and Turkey.

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Gandikota-Nellutla, Executive Secretary of the Hague Group

Collective action by states is the only antidote to "powerful nations seeking to protect Israel's illegal actions."

Bogota, July 16 (RHC)-- The Hague Group began a two-day meeting in Bogota, Colombia on Tuesday. During her opening speech at the Emergency Ministerial Conference on Palestine, the Executive Secretary of the Hague Group, Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla, called on states to act with courage and bravery and end Israel's impunity and the complicity of other states in the context of Israel's genocide in the Gaza Strip.

The Executive Secretary began her speech by thanking Colombia for organizing this "historic conference" and paying tribute to the legacy of Bolívar, whose struggle for the liberation of peoples, she affirmed, must illuminate the way.

Additionally, she recalled a statement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in which he challenged the authority of the International Court of Justice by stating that "no one can stop us, not even The Hague." The Executive Secretary lamented that, after 647 days of genocide, this statement proves true, justifying the urgent meeting in Bogotá.

Gandikota-Nellutla emphasized that the purpose of the conference is not to create new laws, as "the laws are clear." The Hague has spoken, the General Assembly has established the obligations of states, and the United Nations has declared Gaza the place with the greatest famine in the world. "It is not clarity that is lacking," she stated.

The statement emphasized that the deliberations over the next 24 hours will focus on measures that states have the courage to implement. These measures, buried in international law, are not optional, radical, or new; they are legally binding obligations under the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, and the United Nations Charter, the executive secretary pointed out.

Furthermore, she reiterated that collective action by states is the only antidote to "powerful nations that seek to protect Israel's illegal actions." She emphasized that there are moments in history that mark a before and after, and that this conference in Bogotá is one of those crucial moments.

Finally, she welcomed the states present and acknowledged that, although many flags may not be visible, the people of those countries are present and support Palestine.

October 7, 2023, marked a turning point in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, when the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas launched Operation Al Aqsa Flood. From that moment on, the Gaza Strip was the scene of a military offensive by Israel, which has killed more than 58,000 Palestinians to date.

[ SOURCE: teleSUR ]

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Hague Group announces steps to hold Israel accountable in Bogota summit

A group of 12 countries from across the world has committed to barring arms transfers to Israel, among other steps.

FOTO: Colombia's acting Foreign Affairs Minister Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio, Colombian President Gustavo Petro and Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations, attend the closing ceremony a conference in Bogota, Colombia, on July 16 [Luisa Gonzalez/Reuters]

A coalition of countries has announced at a meeting in the Colombian capital of Bogota that they will pursue accountability for Israeli abuses in Gaza, including by preventing the transfer of weapons to Israel.

The two-day meeting concluded on Wednesday with two dozen countries agreeing to six measures to “restrain Israel’s assault on the Occupied Palestinian Territories”.

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Bogota Summit launches Global South’s legal intifada against Israel and US impunity

Colombia’s defiant pivot from Washington and the growing Hague Group alliance marks a potentially historic rupture with western legal hypocrisy on Palestine.

From 15–16 July, Bogota became the unlikely capital of a global insurrection against western legal impunity. Over 30 countries – including key powers from the Global South and even some European states – gathered in the Colombian capital for the Hague Group Emergency Summit.

This was the most ambitious multilateral initiative yet to directly confront what participants unflinchingly termed Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and the broader culture of impunity that has shielded the occupation state since 1948.

From steadfast client to anti-imperial spearhead

That the summit was held in Colombia – a long-standing US vassal in Latin America – was not incidental. Once regarded as Washington’s most loyal client in the hemisphere, Colombia’s dramatic pivot under President Gustavo Petro represents the boldest regional defiance of US authority in decades.

Petro, who severed diplomatic ties with Tel Aviv in 2024, has placed Bogota on a collision course with the US over his unwavering opposition to the occupation state’s onslaught in Gaza.

Washington reacted predictably by issuing warnings to allies against the “weaponization of international law,” and sanctioning UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for her “illegitimate and shameful efforts” to advance the International Criminal Court's (ICC) prosecutions of Israeli and US officials. Bogota responded with direct defiance. In the run-up to the summit, Petro publicly backed Albanese, declaring that “the multilateral system of states cannot be destroyed,” in a thinly veiled rejection of US diktats.

Over 30 nations participated, including the eight founding members of the Hague Group – Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, Malaysia, Namibia, Senegal, and South Africa, co-chaired by Colombia and South Africa. They were joined by more than 20 additional states spanning Latin America, Africa, Asia, and even Europe.

The participation of European countries such as Portugal and Spain was noteworthy. Both states only established full diplomatic relations with Israel in the latter half of the 20^th century: Portugal in 1977 and Spain in 1986, emblematic of their historic caution over Israel’s contested legitimacy.

But since Tel Aviv’s genocidal war on Gaza began in late 2023, Madrid has adopted a string of punitive diplomatic moves.

Spain canceled a €6.6 million (around $7.2 million) ammunition purchase from an Israeli firm, scrapped a €285 million (around $310.7 million) anti-tank missile deal with the Spanish subsidiary of Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, banned Israeli weapons from port entry, formally recognized Palestinian statehood, and pushed to suspend the EU–Israel Association Agreement.

Though neither European state fully endorsed all of Bogota’s proposals, their participation and scathing denunciations of Israeli policy reflect a deeper fracture within Europe over Tel Aviv’s legitimacy and the cost of complicity.

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