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Colombian President Petro announces country will sever diplomatic ties with Israel amid Gaza conflict

Gustavo Petro is a former urban guerrilla member and Colombia's first-ever leftist president. (Credit: Photo by: AFP/Daniel Munoz)

Colombian president Gustavo Petro announced on Wednesday that the country will sever diplomatic ties with Israel over its handling of the Gaza war.

Speaking at a public event in the country, Petro assured that "humankind on the streets agrees with us: we can't go back to a time of genocide, to the extermination of a people before our eyes. If Palestine dies, humankind will die and we won't let it die," he said.

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