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Al Jazeera English - Americas - Venezuela breaks off Israel ties: "Venezuela has joined Bolivia in severing ties with Israel in protest against its war in the Gaza Strip, which has left more than 1,000 Palestinians dead.

'Venezuela ... has decided to break off diplomatic relations with the state of Israel given the inhumane persecution of the Palestinian people,' the foreign ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.

Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, decided to expel Israel's ambassador and embassy staff last week because of the offensive, calling the Israeli onslaught a 'holocaust'.

Evo Morales, the president of Bolivia and a close ally of Chavez, said that he would seek to get senior Israeli officials, including Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, charged with 'genocide' in the International Criminal Court.

'Insecurity Council'

The Bolivian president also dismissed the United Nations and its 'Insecurity Council' for its 'lukewarm' response to the crisis and said the general assembly should hold an emergency session to condemn the invasion.

'Considering these grave attacks against ... humanity, Bolivia will stop having diplomatic relations with Israel,' Morales told diplomats in the Bolivian capital, La Paz.

He also said that Shimon Peres, the Israeli president, should be stripped of
his Nobel Peace Prize for failing to stop the invasion."

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