Hague Group announces plans to hold Israel accountable for Gaza genocide

Led by South Africa and Colombia, delegates from some 30 countries and UN officials such as the rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, gathered in the Colombian capital to take part in a summit on July 15 and 16.

The participants seek to coordinate concrete actions, including “legal and diplomatic measures,” against the Israeli regime's genocidal war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

The Hague Group announced plans on Wednesday to exert pressure against Zionist regime’s ‘violations of international law” in a war that has already claimed nearly 58,600 lives.

Among the measures announced in the six-step plan by the group are the denial of arms shipments to Israel, and a review of public contracts for possible links to companies reaping profit from the Zionist regime’s war on Gaza.

Other measures include support for “universal jurisdiction mandates”, which would allow states or international bodies to prosecute serious international crimes, regardless of where they took place.

The delegates who have been discussing the measures for two days have called the plan the most ambitious and multilateral one since the beginning of the war in Gaza 21 months ago, according to reports from Bogota.

Speaking on Tuesday at a press conference alongside the summit in Bogota, Albanese, the UN expert who was recently sanctioned by the US government for her condemnation of Israel, stressed that it is high time for nations around the world to take concrete action to stop the genocide.

“Ministers, the truth is that Palestine has already triggered a revolution, and you are part of it,” Albanese said.

“Palestine has changed global consciousness, drawing a clear line between those who oppose genocide and those who accept it or are part of it,” she added.

The Hague Group, made up of twelve countries, including South Africa, Colombia, Bolivia, Cuba, Indonesia, Iraq, Libya, Malaysia, Namibia, Nicaragua, Oman, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, was formed in January in the Dutch city to bring together countries from the “Global South.”