Today, The Hague Group High-Level Meeting to halt the Gaza Genocide issued their joint statement, which is worth reading in full:
One year ago, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution A/RES/ES-10/24, demanding that the State of Israel comply with the International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinion of July 2024, giving the State of Israel twelve months to cease without delay its “unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.”
That deadline has now passed. Israel has defied the General Assembly, ignored the Court, and intensified its crimes. The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel has now concluded that Israel’s actions constitute a genocide. In the face of this grave reality, the international community must commit—not to rhetoric, but to action.
That is why The Hague Group was first established in January—to rally against complicity and end impunity—by collectively enforcing international law. Over the past year, states across the world have enforced concrete measures through national legislation and executive policies: halting arms transfers, blocking weapons shipments, suspending procurement from Israeli firms, ceasing energy exports and ensuring accountability through national and international courts.
Today, on the sidelines of the 80th UN General Assembly, The Hague Group convened more than thirty governments to consolidate these measures into a coordinated global strategy to halt the Gaza genocide. We affirm:
That accountability as a principle cannot be forsaken.
That Israel cannot be permitted to continue its crimes with impunity.
That every state has obligations to prevent genocide and implement international law.
That coordinated enforcement—through our courts, ports, contracts, factories, and financial systems—an unavoidable path to justice for the people of Palestine.
Such coordination strengthens the global response to Israel’s ongoing crimes, setting a model for all states to immediately fulfil their legal obligations, and creating robust mechanisms for accountability at the national, regional, and international levels.
Colombia and South Africa, as co-chairs of The Hague Group, reaffirm our shared commitment to this mission. We stand together, not only for Palestine, but for the integrity of international law itself. The choice before every government is clear: complicity or compliance.
History will judge us not by the speeches we delivered, but by the actions we took. Together, we call on all states to join us in cutting ties of complicity across arms, finance, and energy—and in ensuring that justice is not delayed but delivered.
The people of Palestine cannot wait—and The Hague Group will not rest until it has rallied the world to defend the international laws that protect them.
Rosa Villavicencio
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Colombia
Ronald Lamola
Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of the Republic of South Africa
