哥伦比亚加入了少数几个国家的行列，采取了颇具争议的举措——承认以色列对这座争议城市的主权主张。
joining a small group of countries in taking the controversial step of backing Israel’s claim to sovereignty in the contested city.
周三，在以色列因加沙地带的种族灭绝式战争而面临日益沉重的国际压力之际，这一决定正式生效。三年来的持续攻击已导致逾7.4万名加沙民众丧生，巴勒斯坦官员随即对此予以强烈谴责。
Palestinian officials swiftly denounced the inauguration on Wednesday that came as Israel is facing mounting international pressure over the genocidal war on Gaza, where three years of attacks have killed more than 74,000 people.
新任哥伦比亚总统阿贝拉多·德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉的这一举措，标志着该国外交政策与其左翼前任古斯塔沃·佩特罗发生了重大转变。佩特罗曾在2024年因加沙战争中断了与以色列的外交关系。
The move by the administration of new Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella is a major shift from his left-wing predecessor Gustavo Petro, who in 2024 severed ties with Israel over the war on Gaza.
今年8月就职的德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉还恢复了佩特罗中止的以色列与哥伦比亚之间的自由贸易协定。
De la Espriella, who was sworn in in August has also restored a free trade agreement between Israel and Colombia that Petro terminated.
哥伦比亚外交部长奥马尔·布拉·埃斯科瓦尔周三表示，两国关系“本就不该中断”，波哥大此举是“恢复外交关系的具体举措”。
Colombian Minister of Foreign Affairs Omar Bula Escobar said on Wednesday that relations between the two countries “should never have been broken” and that Bogota was taking “taking a concrete step towards restoring diplomatic relations”.
在使馆开馆仪式上，他称：“以色列是我们的战略伙伴，一直以来皆是如此，今后这种伙伴关系还将更加牢固。”
“Israel is a strategic partner. It always has been, and from now on, it will be an even stronger one,” he said during a ceremony that marked the embassy’s opening.
此举使哥伦比亚成为第十个在耶路撒冷设立大使馆的国家——大多数国家仍将正式外交机构设在特拉维夫。
The opening made Colombia the 10th country to establish its embassy in Israel in Jerusalem – most countries keep their formal diplomatic missions in Tel Aviv.
以色列外长吉迪恩·萨阿尔在仪式上对这一举措表示欢迎。他在哥伦比亚大使馆的留言簿上写道：“对以色列国而言，今天是个重要日子；对耶路撒冷这座城市来说，同样如此。”
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar welcomed the move during the ceremony. “This is an important date for the State of Israel. It’s also an important date for the city of Jerusalem,” he said whileg the Colombian embassy’s guest book.
哥伦比亚驻以色列大使塔尼亚·吉林斯基称，以色列始终是哥伦比亚的“战略伙伴”，今后两国关系“必将以更大的决心与力度持续发展”。“违反国际法”巴勒斯坦民族权力机构谴责哥伦比亚的这一举动，称其“违背了具有国际合法性的各项决议”，破坏了“国际社会关于耶路撒冷法律地位的共识”。
Colombian Ambassador Tania Gilinski said Israel had always been a “strategic partner” and that moving forward it “will be so with even greater determination and strength”. ‘Violation of international law’The Palestinian Authority condemned Colombia’s embassy move, calling it “a violation of international legitimacy resolutions” that undermines “the international consensus on the legal status of the holy city”.
约旦外交部也批评这一举动是“对国际法及相关国际决议的违反”。
Jordan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs also criticised the move as a “violation of international law and relevant international resolutions”.
2018年，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在首个任期内将美国驻以色列大使馆从特拉维夫迁至耶路撒冷，此举激怒了巴勒斯坦人并招致国际社会的谴责。此前的历任美国总统以及几乎所有其他国家都未在耶路撒冷设立大使馆，理由是该城市的最终地位问题须先通过以色列与巴勒斯坦双方的谈判来解决。
United States President Donald Trump moved the US embassy to Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem during his first term in 2018, angering Palestinians and sparking international condemnation. Previous US presidents, as well as nearly every other country, refrained from opening embassies in Jerusalem, arguing that the city’s final status should first be resolved in negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians.
耶路撒冷的地位问题仍是巴以冲突中尚未解决的核心问题之一：以色列宣称整个耶路撒冷都是其首都，而巴勒斯坦人则视被占领的东耶路撒冷为未来巴勒斯坦国的首都。
The status of Jerusalem remains one of the core unresolved issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with Israel claiming the undivided city as its capital while Palestinians view occupied East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state.
1967年，以色列占领并吞并了东耶路撒冷，但这一举动并未得到国际社会绝大多数国家的承认。
Israel occupied East Jerusalem and annexed it in 1967, in a move not recognised by the vast majority of the international community.
自特朗普将美国大使馆迁至耶路撒冷后，仅有少数几个亲美小国效仿，分别是斐济、危地马拉、洪都拉斯、巴布亚新几内亚、巴拉圭和瑙鲁。至于并非联合国成员国的科索沃与索马里兰，也各自在耶路撒冷设立了它们所认定的大使馆。
Since Trump relocated the US embassy to Jerusalem, only a handful of small, US-aligned countries have followed suit, namely Fiji, Guatemala, Honduras, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay and Nauru. Kosovo and Somaliland, which are not member-states of the United Nations, have also opened what they consider their embassies in Jerusalem.