Hague Group to discuss ‘legal and diplomatic measures’ to end Gaza genocide
Representatives of the nine countries in the Hague Group
The Palestine Chronicle reports on 11 June 2025:
The Hague Group, co-chaired by Colombia and South Africa, will hold an emergency ministerial meeting in Bogota next month to address Israel’s ongoing “crime of genocide.”
“The emergency meeting has been convened in response to Israel’s ongoing and escalating violations of international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including the crime of genocide, and will focus on coordinated legal and diplomatic measures to bring them to an end,” the countries said in a joint statement on Tuesday.
The meeting, to be held from July 15 to 16 in the Colombian capital, will convene states from both across and beyond the founding membership of the Hague Group which was established in January in response to “the grave violations of international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.”
‘Enforce International Law’
The “emergency meeting” will centre the legal obligations of states, as determined by the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) of July 2024, to stop all actions “that assist in the maintenance of the illegal situation created by Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,” and to support the full realisation of the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to self-determination,” the statement noted.