Photo grab from video posted on X (formally known as Twitter) shows Bolivian deputy foreign minister Freddy Mamani and minister in the Presidency Maria Nela Prada during a press conference in which they announced the government decision to cut the diplomatic ties with Israel over the war in Gaza.
Bolivia decided to cut the diplomatic ties with Israel and accusing it of committing crimes against humanity in its attack on the Gaza Strip.
The government "has decided to cut diplomatic relations with the State of Israel, in repudiation and condemnation of the aggressive and disproportionate Israeli military offensive being carried out in the Gaza Strip," deputy foreign minister Freddy Mamani told a press conference.
Minister in the Presidency Maria Nela Prada also announced the country was sending humanitarian aid to Gaza.
"We demand an end to the attacks" in the Gaza Strip "which have so far caused thousands of civilian deaths and the forced displacement of Palestinians," she said at the same press conference.
The government of leftist Luis Arce is the first in Latin America to cut ties with Israel since the war in Gaza began on October 7, 2023.
Bolivia only announced it was restoring ties with Israel in 2019, a decade after they were cut over previous attacks on the Gaza Strip.
Several leaders in the region have spoken out against the Deadly Israeli attack on Gaza, which according to the Palestainian health ministry says thus far, killed over 8,500 Palestinians in Gaza, including 3,457 children, and wounded more than 23,000
The decision by Bolivia comes after Colombia called for Israel's ambassador to leave the country before rowing back the comments in a diplomatic spat over the offensive.
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council, has urged a ceasefire.
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