Mexico – Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum called on the headquarters of Gaza on Monday on Monday on the Gaza Strip, marking a decisive change in the position of her government on the conflict – and disagreeing it with the United States.
Sheinbaum, which is part of a handful of Jewish heads of state, has undergone increasing pressure from the members of its left coalition to condemn the assault on Israel more force against the small Palestinian enclave, where at least 65,000 people died and more than half a million are trapped in famine.
Addressing journalists at his daily press conference, Sheinbaum said that Mexico was “with the international community to stop this genocide in Gaza”.
Claudia Sheinbaum, 63, is the first Jewish chief of Mexico, a nation which is massively Catholic.
His comments came in the middle of a meeting in New York of the United Nations General Assembly, where several countries, including France, Great Britain, Canada and Australia, officially recognized Palestine as a state. Mexico officially supports the Palestinian state for years.
Sheinbaum, 63, is the first Jewish chief of Mexico, a nation which is massively Catholic. She grew up in a secular household and rarely talks about her Jewish identity.
Sheinbaum, who entered politics in the world of leftist activism, has long supported the Palestinian cause. In 2009, she wrote a letter to the Mexican newspaper Jornada fiercely condemning Israel’s actions in an earlier war with Gaza, where 13 Israelis and more than 1,000 Palestinian civilians were killed.
Sheinbaum spoke of the holocaust, saying: “Many of my relatives … were exterminated in concentration camps.”
“I can only look with horror the images of the Israeli bombing of Gaza,” she wrote. “Nothing justifies the murder of Palestinian civilians. Nothing, nothing, nothing can justify the murder of a child. ”
The last conflict broke out in 2023 after Hamas fighters crossed a border fence surrounding Gaza and killed more than 1,000 Israelis, most of them.
Israel responded with a punishing assault against Gaza of air, land and sea, moving almost 2 million people from the band and damaging or destroying 90% of the houses.
Since its entry into office last year, Sheinbaum has repeatedly called upon a ceasefire and reiterated Mexico’s support for a two-state solution in the region, but until Monday, it had refrained from categorizing what takes place in Gaza as genocide.
It was perhaps to avoid conflicts with the United States, which brought more foreign aid to Israel than any other country in the world during the decades following the Second World War, and which supported the war against Gaza with billions of dollars in weapons and other military aid.
Sheinbaum, whose nation’s economy depends strongly on trade with the United States, spent a large part of its first year in power to seek President Trump on security and migration issues to avoid the worst of his threatened prices on Mexican imports.
His comments on Gaza come in the middle of an increasing world consensus that Israel commits a genocide.
The main global association of researchers in genocide said that Israel commits a genocide in Gaza.
International insurance. Genocide researchers have recently adopted a resolution which says that the conduct of Israel responds to the legal definition as indicated in the United Nations Convention on the Genocide.
And this month, a United Nations commission of inquiry also found that Israel had committed a genocide.
An Israeli flag acts on debris in an area of the Gaza Strip, as in southern Israel last month. The Israeli aggression against the Palestinian enclave killed at least 65,000 people.
(Maya Levin / Associated Press)
“The explicit statements of the Israeli civil and military authorities and the Israeli security forces conduct indicate that the genocidal acts have been committed with the intention of destroying, in whole or in part, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as a group,” the Commission wrote.
He added that by virtue of the genocide convention, the other nations have the obligation to “prevent and punish the crime of genocide”.
Israeli officials rejected the report as “baseless”.
