00:00Here in front of you, the government of the change, the President of the Republic,
00:08inform that tomorrow they will break the diplomatic relations with the State of Israel.
00:14The decision to break the relations is not new for Colombia.
00:18According Camilo González, professor of international relations at the University of
00:22Javerian University, this is a more symbolic act than practical and really
00:25would not have a profound impact on the day to day of the Colombian.
00:28According to the professor, it is not a relationship that has been made in the commercial, but
00:33it is in terms of modernization of the military infrastructure that has Colombia.
00:37This, in the words of the professor, what it is affecting is a lot of cooperation between
00:41the military and, above all, talking about a regular war, like here in Colombia,
00:45added the professor, and it is that, effectively, Israel is of the countries that provide
00:48inteligencia and all those systems sofisticated to dismantle estructuras criminales.
00:52Israel is one of the main allies in terms of security for Colombia.
00:56According to the data, in January Colombia import about $351,000 in weapons and weapons
01:01from Israel, and for 2023 were more than $90,3 million.
01:06But in the area of defense, it is not where there would be more impact.
01:09Here comes the central point, the Colombian community in Cisjordania and Israel.
01:13It is estimated that in Cisjordania there are about 1,200 colombian,
01:16while in Israel they live between 4,000 and 5,000 con nationales.
01:20A diplomatist told the spectator that, by romping relations with Israel,
01:24practically, the relationship with Palestine is also very dangerous for the first group.
01:29To attend the population in Cisjordania, Colombia needs to have relations with Israel
01:33to be able to be able to help this area, for issues such as the access to the territory.
01:38At the moment, there is no aficion of the mission of Colombia in Ramallah, the capital
01:42de facto of Palestine, although the president Petro promised the last October that it would
01:46be able to open one.
01:46To avoid that the Colombian population would be flotting without a diplomatist, the order
01:51of things should be to open first the office in Ramallah before cutting relations with Israel.
01:55However, on the objective of Petro to open a diplomatist in Ramallah, it also depends on
02:02a good part of the view of Israel, with whom the relations were completely deteriorated.
02:07However, the sources of the Cancillería confirmed that, despite the announcements,
02:11will be open to a consular office in Israel, with a diplomatist of career and a personal
02:16administrative staff that will continue to pay services to the Colombianos in both territories.
02:20The functions of this office will be the same that in any consular office in the world,
02:25and the attention will continue to be brinded.
02:27This will inform you with time to the Colombianos that are in both territories through the office
02:31consular office.
02:31Tras this decision, the minister of external relations Israeli, Israel Katz, called a
02:37Gustavo Petro as an anti-semite, full of odious.
02:39Katz put a message in X that said that the president of Colombia prometed premiar a
02:43los asesinos and violadores de Hamas, and today he fulfilled his promise.
02:46The story reminds that Gustavo Petro decided to put the most most despreciable ones known
02:51by the Humanity that killed babies, killed children, violated women, and sequestrated
02:56the innocent people.
02:57So, the minister Katz in the social social X.
02:59By the way, the president of the Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, thanks to his homologo colombiano,
03:04Gustavo Petro, for the decision to cut from 2 May the relationship with Israel due to the
03:08genocide against the Palestinian people palestine.
03:10According to the Presidencia of the National-Palestine, this announcement is an example to continue
03:15for him.
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