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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 643

Colombia

Senator Miguel Uribe looks on after the Senate voted against the government labor reform referendum promoted by Colombia's President Gustavo Petro in Bogota on May 14, 2025. (Raul ARBOLEDA / AFP)
June 8, 2025, 9:50 am
Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe ‘fighting for life’ after shooting
Right-wing challenger in critical condition after being gunned down in front of crowds at campaign event in Bogota; suspect, reportedly a minor, shot him in the head and knee
By Valentín DÌAZ and Andrew BEATTY
Rabbi Richard Gamboa Ben-Eleazar, Colombia's new director of religious affair, in a video posted to his Facebook page, on February 15, 2025. Gamboa has called Israel a 'Nazi state,' and calls Zionism 'heresy.' (Screenshot from Facebook via Richard Gamboa Ben-Eleazar)
April 10, 2025, 11:41 am
Colombia taps anti-Zionist, unrecognized ‘rabbi’ as director of religious affairs
He ‘cannot be entrusted with religious freedom of Jews,’ says one leader as Jewish community fumes over pick of online-ordained rabbi who calls Zionist Jews ‘Nazis’ and ‘apostates’
By Grace Gilson
Handout picture released by Colombian Air Force showing Kfir combat airplane from the Colombian Air Force and a F15 jet (L) of the US Air Force during a military exercise in Puerto Salgar, Colombia, on September 8, 2023. (Handout / Colombian Air Force / AFP)
April 4, 2025, 7:51 pm
Colombia, which cut ties with Israel, to replace aging Israeli fighter jets with Swedish
Bogota says maintaining Kfir aircraft too complicated after severing relations with Jerusalem last year, though previous governments had also planned to replace them
By AP and ToI Staff
Colombian President Gustavo Petro holds a picture showing a Palestinian state on Israel's territory, during a visit to the Thumama Medical Center in Doha, Qatar, February 14, 2025. (Screen capture: X/Gustavo Petro, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 16, 2025, 10:51 am
Colombia’s president poses with map of Israel replaced by Palestinian state
Gustavo Petro, who cut ties with Israel after accusing it of genocide, calls for release of Israeli-Colombian hostage as tribute to country’s ‘solidarity with Palestinians’
By ToI Staff
Colombia's President Gustavo Petro addresses the the Summit of the Future at the United Nations General Assembly, in New York, September 23, 2024. (Richard Drew/AP)
September 24, 2024, 8:56 am
Anti-money laundering group suspends Colombia after president’s Israeli spyware claims
Egmont Group says Gustavo Petro shared confidential information about previous government’s alleged purchase and use of Pegasus software
By AP and ToI Staff
A man holds his phone with NSO GROUP logo on a computer screen in the background, in Jerusalem, on February 7, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 5, 2024, 9:01 pm
Colombia opens probe into police’s alleged purchase, illegal use of Israeli spyware
President Petro claims law enforcers used cash to buy NSO Group’s Pegasus software under previous government, used it to spy on political leaders and activists
By Agencies
Coal stacks at the Orot Rabin power station in Hadera, central Israel, August 28, 2008. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)
June 10, 2024, 2:23 pm
Israel ‘has alternatives’ to suspended Colombian coal, says electric company
Latin American country supplies more than half of Israel’s coal; IEC negotiating with alternative suppliers to ‘increase room for maneuver’
By Sue Surkes
Colombian President Gustavo Petro delivers a speech during a military ceremony at the Military School of Cadets General Jose Maria Cordova in Bogota on May 31, 2024. (Raul ARBOLEDA / AFP)
June 9, 2024, 11:15 am
Colombia says it will halt coal sales to Israel over war in Gaza
Government document says exports to only resume once Jerusalem complies with UN court ruling on Rafah; Colombian Mining Association says move imperils markets, foreign investment
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Colombian President Gustavo Petro delivers a speech during the opening of Colombia's regional elections, in Bogota on October 29, 2023. (Daniel Munoz/AFP)
May 23, 2024, 9:42 am
Colombia to open embassy in Ramallah after cutting ties with Israel
Foreign minister says he believes efforts to have more countries recognize a Palestinian state will gather steam
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Colombian President Gustavo Petro delivers a speech during a May Day (Labor Day) rally in Bogota on May 1, 2024. (Raul ARBOLEDA/AFP)
May 1, 2024, 11:21 pm
Colombia to sever ties after months of panning Israel as ‘genocidal’
Foreign minister accuses Gustavo Petro, country’s first leftist president, of ‘standing alongside vile monsters who burned babies, raped women,’ ending decades-long relationship
By AFP, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
File: The International Court of Justice, the principal judicial organ of the UN, delivers its order South Africa's request for provisional measures against Israel over its actions in the Gaza Strip, January 26, 2024. (International Court of Justice)
April 5, 2024, 11:48 pm
Colombia petitions ICJ to join South Africa’s Gaza genocide case against Israel
Application for second intervention on behalf of Palestinians cites Latin American country’s wish to ensure ‘the very existence of the Palestinian people’
By Reuters and ToI Staff
A delegation of elected officials from Latin America paying a solidarity visit to the southern Israeli city of Sderot, organized by the Combat Antisemitism Movement, March 11, 2024. (CAM, courtesy)
March 18, 2024, 11:57 pm
Latin American delegation visits Israel amid surge in antisemitism at home
Public diplomacy initiative brings local officials from Central and South America to witness aftermath of Oct. 7 first hand, in a bid to curb rise in anti-Jewish hate
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Handout picture released by the press office of Colombia's then president-elect Gustavo Petro (R) shows him meeting with Bolivia's President Luis Arce (L) before his inauguration ceremony in Bogota, on August 7, 2022. (Gustavo Petro's Press Office/AFP)
February 21, 2024, 10:15 am
Presidents of Colombia, Bolivia back Brazilian counterpart’s Israel-Hitler comparison
Gustavo Petro and Luis Acre tweet approval of Lula’s comments; South American leaders began accusing Israel of ‘crimes against humanity’ shortly after October 7
By AFP, Reuters and ToI Staff
Colombia's President Gustavo Petro waves at his supporters at Bolivar square after a march to support his proposed reforms, in Bogota, Colombia, September 27, 2023. (Fernando Vergara/AP)
October 17, 2023, 1:58 am
Colombia tells Israel envoy to leave as diplomatic feud over Gaza war deepens
Foreign Minister Alvaro Leyva says Gali Dagan should ‘at a minimum, apologize and leave’ for rebuking President Gustavo Petro, who compared IDF to Nazis during ongoing conflict
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Colombia's President Gustavo Petro waves at his supporters at Bolivar square after a march to support his proposed reforms, in Bogota, Colombia, September 27, 2023. (Fernando Vergara/AP)
October 16, 2023, 9:30 am
Israel halts security exports to Colombia over president’s support of Hamas
Foreign Ministry summons Bogota’s envoy due to ‘hostile and antisemitic statements’ by leader Gustavo Petro, who branded Israelis ‘Nazis’ for response to terror assault
By AFP and ToI Staff
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