“We need to stop the genocide in Gaza. Humanity cannot allow a single day more of this genocide, for the genocidal Netanyahu and his allies in Europe and the United States to continue.”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has called for Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza to be stopped, urging nations of the world to “bring together weapons and armies to defend Palestine.”
— Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) September 24, 2025
“We need to stop the genocide in Gaza. Humanity cannot allow a single day more of this genocide, for the genocidal Netanyahu and his allies in Europe and the United States to continue,” Petro stated in his last speech before the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.
He called on the UN to “uphold the decisions” of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), saying “International law is the basis of civilisation and of its wisdom as distilled in history.”
Diplomacy a Failure
Diplomacy “has been tried in Gaza,” Petro said, but “it could not resolve the situation.”
He continued: “I’m sorry, President Macron. We can keep insisting and insisting when every single day, every single minute, a missile is fired and destroys the bodies of babies and children in the Arab state of Palestine.”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro told the UN General Assembly the world must end the “genocide in Gaza,” accusing Israeli PM Netanyahu, the US, and Europe of genocidal policies, and linking US Caribbean strikes to racism and domination. pic.twitter.com/ZQFGTMECC2
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) September 24, 2025
World leaders gathered on Monday for the International Conference for the Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution, organized under the auspices of the UN and led by France and Saudi Arabia.
“Every day, there are decisions, resolutions that are vetoed in the Security Council. Every day, more and more children die. More and more bombs, more and more dead,” Petro stressed.
UNGA Vote
Questioning whether member states could stop the genocide with a vote in the General Assembly, he stressed, “Yes, that’s what we should do, rather than a vote in the Security Council, because that is vetoed.”
Petro said “a peacekeeping force” should be established, but “not blue helmets that often lack training, and they’re not ready to do this.”
“No, what we need is a powerful army of countries that do not accept genocide,” he continued.
Victor de Currea-Lugo, special advisor to President Gustavo Petro of Colombia, held an impromptu presser today in midtown NYC to detail his government’s historic push for an armed UN protection force to break Israel’s blockade on food & aid to Gaza
Here are his comments and Q&A pic.twitter.com/dT3RbQ0W9D
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) September 24, 2025
“That is why I invite nations of the world, and their peoples most importantly, as an integral part of humanity, to bring together weapons and armies to defend Palestine. I invite the armies of Asia, the great Slavic people who defeated Hitler, and the Latin American people of Bolivar, of Garibaldi, and others. I think we’ve had enough words,” Petro stated.
Trump ‘An Accomplice to Genocide’
The Colombian president said that the “persecution, imprisonment, and expulsion of millions of migrants, missiles that have killed some 70,000 people in Gaza” and “the lack of action on the climate crisis” were all linked and “has the same cause.”
He stated that “Migration is simply an excuse so that a rich society, rich, white, and racist, believes itself to be the superior race and is not realising that its leaders are leading it to the abyss, to its own distinction, together with the rest of humanity.”
’History will Judge Us’: World Leaders Raise Concern at UN Summit on Palestine
US President Donald Trump, he asserted, “is an accomplice to genocide.”
“This forum is a mute witness to a genocide in a world where we thought that this was something only a legacy of Hitler,” Petro stated.
He said that “the time has come to use the slogan of (Simon) Bolivar – freedom or death – because Washington and NATO are killing democracy, and they are spreading totalitarianism at the global level.”
US ‘Kills Democracy’
The United States, Petro continued, “no longer teaches democracy, but rather kills democracy, especially among its immigrants, filled with greed.”
Turning to the UN, he stressed that the world body “should begin its change by stopping the genocide in Gaza with an army of liberation and salvation.”
Colombia’s Petro Calls Gaza Crisis ‘Anti-Human,’ Urges Global Accountability
He reiterated that a decision should be taken in the General Assembly “without any veto.”
“After Gaza, we can start working on decarbonisation, so that we can found a truly global democracy, and a new Security Council can be established without any vetoes, and where its decisions would be binding,” Petro stated.
Watch the full speech here.
Ongoing Genocide
Since reneging on the ceasefire on March 18, Israel has continued its bloody aerial bombardment across the Gaza Strip, killing and wounding thousands of Palestinians.
Starting on October 7, 2023, the Israeli military, with American support, launched a genocidal war against the people of Gaza. This campaign has so far resulted in the deaths of more than 65,000 Palestinians, with more than 165,000 wounded. The vast majority of the population has been displaced, and the destruction of infrastructure is unprecedented since World War II. Thousands of people are still missing.
“One of my sons was killed in the north, and now another was killed in the south”
A Palestinian mother laments her second son, who was killed by an Israeli bullet even after they fled Gaza City toward the south. pic.twitter.com/njK2n23V0V
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) September 24, 2025
In addition to the military assault, the Israeli blockade has caused a man-made famine, leading to the deaths of hundreds of Palestinians—mostly children—with hundreds of thousands more at risk.
Despite widespread international condemnation, little has been done to hold Israel accountable. The nation is currently under investigation for genocide by the International Court of Justice, while accused war criminals, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, are officially wanted by the International Criminal Court.
(The Palestine Chronicle)
Finally! someone with a set of balls big enough to try. He is 100% correct, every word he spoke. Now let’s see if he ” has an accident ” …
if he does, we all know who caused it.
Fat chance. You can be sure the UN will, in fact already has, blessed the genocide and colonial landgrab, after a propaganda campaign by PR girl Albanese to deflect from its actual role, which is to run cover for mass murderering imperialist scum systems. The pretence of civilisation. Great words from Petro, so now what? Palestine doesn’t hold its breath.