Nicaragua breaks diplomatic ties with Israel amid ongoing Gaza war

In a mostly symbolic move, the Ortega authorities condemned Israel’s leaders arsenic ‘fascist’ and ‘genocidal’ implicit Gaza war.

The government of Nicaragua has announced that it volition interruption diplomatic relations with Israel, adding to the country’s increasing isolation connected the planetary signifier amid its warfare successful Gaza.

Nicaraguan Vice President Rosario Murillo announced the determination to authorities media connected Friday aft the country’s Congress passed a solution calling for enactment aft the one-year anniversary of the Gaza warfare connected October 7.

Murillo, who is President Daniel Ortega’s wife, said her hubby instructed the authorities to “sever diplomatic relations with the fascist and genocidal authorities of Israel”.

The announcement is mostly a symbolic one, since Israel does not person a nonmigratory ambassador successful the Nicaraguan superior of Managua and relations betwixt the 2 nations are astir nonexistent.

Still, the announcement comes astatine a clip erstwhile Israel is nether increasing diplomatic scrutiny amid a brutal campaign successful Gaza and expanding attacks crossed the Middle East, including successful Lebanon.

The decease toll successful Gaza has spiralled past 42,000 people, and thousands much person been killed successful the bombing run successful Lebanon, galore successful the past fewer weeks.

The Nicaraguan authorities condemned Israel’s warfare successful Gaza connected Friday and said the warring present “extends against Lebanon and gravely threatens Syria, Yemen and Iran”.

Opposition to the Gaza warfare has been comparatively wide successful Latin America, wherever leftist leaders successful countries specified arsenic Brazil, Colombia and Chile person emerged arsenic outspoken critics of Israel.

The Palestinian ngo to the United Nations announced connected Friday that those 3 nations had helped spearhead a missive of enactment for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, whom Israel declared persona non grata past week.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro chopped diplomatic ties with Israel successful May, calling the medication of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “genocidal”. Brazilian person Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva besides recalled the country’s ambassador to Israel that aforesaid month, and helium likened the warfare successful Gaza to the Holocaust.

For its part, the Ortega authorities submitted a petition to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to halt German arms income to Israel, an effort the tribunal rejected successful April.

Nicaragua has faced its ain problems with increasing diplomatic isolation successful Latin America, arsenic Ortega and his allies measurement up repressive actions against dissidents and opponents of the government.

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