The United Nations' special rapporteur for besieged Gaza and the occupied West Bank said that it's time for nations around the world to take concrete actions to stop the "genocide" in the blockaded enclave.
Francesca Albanese spoke to delegates from 30 countries meeting in Colombia's capital on Tuesday to discuss the Israeli genocide in Gaza and ways that nations can try to stop Israel's carnage.
"Each state must immediately review and suspend all ties with the State of Israel ... and ensure its private sector does the same," Albanese said. "The Israeli economy is structured to sustain the occupation that has now turned genocidal."
The governments of Spain, Ireland and China have also sent delegates to the meeting.
Israel has rejected genocide allegations against it as an antisemitic "blood libel."
The conference is co-chaired by the governments of South Africa and Colombia, which last year suspended coal exports to Israeli power plants, and includes the participation of members of The Hague Group, a coalition of eight nations that earlier this year pledged to cut military ties with Israel and to comply with an International Criminal Court arrest warrant against Netanyahu.
For decades, South Africa's ruling African National Congress party has compared Israel's policies in Gaza and the occupied West Bank with its own history of oppression under the harsh apartheid regime of white minority rule, which restricted most Blacks to "homelands" before ending in 1994.

'Not just about Palestine'
The gathering comes as the European Union weighs various measures against Israel that include a ban on imports from Israeli illegal settlements, an arms embargo and individual sanctions against Israeli officials, who are found to be blocking a peaceful solution to the war.
Colombia's Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mauricio Jaramillo, said on Monday that the nations participating in the Bogota meeting, which also include Qatar and Türkiye, will be discussing diplomatic and judicial measures that can be taken to put more pressure on Israel to cease its attacks.
The Colombian official described Israel's conduct in Gaza and the occupied West Bank as an affront to the international order.
"This is not just about Palestine," Jaramillo said in a press conference. "It is about defending international law… and the right to self-determination."
Israeli genocide in Gaza
Israel killed over 58,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, in its carnage in Gaza.
Some 11,000 Palestinians are feared buried under rubble of annihilated homes, according to Palestine's official WAFA news agency.
Experts, however, contend that the actual death toll significantly exceeds what the Gaza authorities have reported, estimating it could be around 200,000.
Over the course of the genocide, Israel has reduced most of the blockaded enclave to ruins, and practically displaced all of its population.
It has also blocked the entry of desperately needed humanitarian aid, and only allowed a controversial US-backed aid group that was established to bypass the UN aid work and condemned as a "death trap."