Colombia stops coal exports to Israel

Colombia has declared that it will stop exporting coal to the Israeli regime as long as the latter continues its genocidal war against the Gaza Strip, which has been going on for months.

“We will suspend coal exports to Israel until the genocide stops,” Colombian President Gustavo Petro said in a post on X on Saturday.

He also published a draft decree saying coal exports would only resume if the regime complied with a recent International Court of Justice order ordering Tel Aviv to withdraw its troops from the Gaza Strip.

Data from the Colombian Statistics Office show that exports in the first eight months of last year were worth over $320 million.

According to the Colombian government, the export ban will come into force five days after the decree is published in the Official Gazette.

On May 1, the Colombian head of state announced that the country had decided to break off diplomatic relations with the Israeli regime because of the war.

“And here before you, the government of change, the President of the Republic announces that tomorrow diplomatic relations with the Israeli regime will be severed,” he said at the time, adding: “(We are breaking off diplomatic relations) because they have… a genocidal president.”

More than 36,801 Palestinians, most of them women and children, were killed in the war that began after the “storming of Al-Aqsa,” a retaliatory operation by resistance groups in the Gaza Strip.

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