According to the Colombian government, the coal export ban will enter into force five days after the decree is published in the official gazette and will not affect goods that have already been authorized for shipment.
Between January and August 2023, Colombia exported $375 million in goods to Israel, with a “considerable concentration” of that amount being coal, the government said, underscoring that the material is a “strategic resource for the manufacture of weapons, the mobilization of troops and the manufacture of provisions for military operations.”
The Hamas attack on Israel that triggered the Gaza war resulted in the deaths of 1,194 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli official figures.
Israel’s retaliatory military offensive has killed at least 36,801 people in Gaza, also mostly civilians, according to the Hamas-run territory’s health ministry.
