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Over 30 Nations Gather in Bogotá to Finalize Measures Against Israel’s Gaza Offensive

The summit seeks to turn a 2024 ICJ advisory into coordinated legal, diplomatic and economic actions by the September deadline.

Riyad Mansour, Palestinian U.N. ambassador, top, second from right, speaks in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, July 15, 2025, during a two-day conference to address the Israel-Hamas war and Israel's military actions in Gaza. Second from left at the table is Colombian Foreign Minister Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio. At far right at table is U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese. At far left at table is Zane Dangor, South Africa's Foreign Minister. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Riyad Mansour, Palestinian U.N. ambassador, second from right, speaks during a two-day conference to address the Israel-Hamas war and Israel's military actions in Gaza, in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, July 15, 2025. From left are South Africa's Foreign Minister Zane Dangor, Colombian Foreign Minister Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio and U.N. Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese speaks during a two-day conference to address the Israel-Hamas war and Israel's military actions in Gaza, in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, July 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Overview

  • Over 30 states are meeting in Bogotá under the co-chairmanship of Colombia and South Africa to finalize enforceable actions under the Hague Group coalition
  • Delegates will consider complying with ICC arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, imposing arms embargoes and barring Israeli military-linked vessels from their ports
  • UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese urged governments to suspend all ties with Israel and its private sector to halt what she called a “genocide” in Gaza, even as the US has sanctioned her
  • The summit aims to meet the September 2025 deadline set by a July 2024 ICJ advisory opinion that declared Israel’s occupation unlawful and demanded rapid implementation of legal safeguards
  • Israel has rejected genocide allegations as an antisemitic “blood libel” and dismissed calls for sanctions as undermining its security needs