Gaza
\nThe government of Nicaragua has announced that it will break diplomatic relations with Israel, adding to the country\u2019s growing isolation on the global stage amid its war on Gaza.
\nNicaraguan Vice President Rosario Murillo announced the move to state media on Friday after Congress passed a resolution calling for action following the one-year anniversary of the Gaza war on October 7.
\nMurillo, who is President Daniel Ortega\u2019s wife, said her husband instructed the government to \u201csever diplomatic relations with the fascist and genocidal government of Israel\u201d.
\nThe announcement is largely a symbolic one, since Israel does not have a resident ambassador in the Nicaraguan capital, Managua, and relations between the two nations are nearly nonexistent.
\nStill, the announcement comes at a time when Israel is under growing diplomatic scrutiny amid a brutal campaign in Gaza and expanding attacks across the Middle East, including in Lebanon.
\nOn Saturday, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs welcomed the decision and said it hoped it would \u201cserve as a model to other friendly governments to take similar measures, as a means of holding Israel accountable for the genocide it is committing against the Palestinian people\u201d.
\nThe death toll in Gaza has spiralled past 42,000 people, and thousands more have been killed in the bombing campaign in Lebanon, many in the last few weeks.
\nThe Nicaraguan government condemned Israel\u2019s war in Gaza on Friday and said the fighting now \u201cextends against Lebanon and gravely threatens Syria, Yemen and Iran\u201d.
\nOpposition to the Gaza war has been relatively widespread in Latin America, where leftist leaders in countries such as Brazil, Colombia and Chile have emerged as outspoken critics of Israel.
\nThe Palestinian mission to the United Nations announced on Friday that those three nations had helped spearhead a letter of support for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, whom Israel declared persona non grata last week.
\nColombian President Gustavo Petro cut diplomatic ties with Israel in May, calling the administration of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu \u201cgenocidal\u201d. Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva also recalled the country\u2019s ambassador to Israel that same month, and he likened the war in Gaza to the Holocaust.
\nFor its part, the Ortega government submitted a request to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to halt German arms sales to Israel, an effort the court rejected in April.
\nNicaragua has faced its own problems with growing diplomatic isolation in Latin America, as Ortega and his allies step up repressive actions against dissidents and opponents of the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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