On Tuesday, ministers and officials from over 30 countries gathered in Bogotá, Colombia to convene The Hague Group, an international organization co-chaired by the governments of Colombia and South Africa. The two-day conference will discuss steps forward for the international community to stop Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians.
The gathering comes amid heightened aggression from the U.S. government against the “emergency conference” and one of its lead speakers—Special UN Rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza Francesca Albanese—as Israel continues to sabotage negotiations between Israel and Hamas.
Dozens of government officials from around the globe took to San Carlos Palace, the site of the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in downtown Bogotá on Tuesday morning. Cameras, mostly from Colombian news organizations, pointed to the front of a large salon, with over two-dozen flags making up the backdrop for a panel of speakers from across the world. The countries represented at the emergency conference this week include Algeria, Bolivia, China, Brazil, Iraq, Lebanon, Nicaragua, Oman, Pakistan, Spain, Turkey, and Venezuela.
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