FILE PHOTO: Nicaraguan Vice-President Rosario Murillo sings revolutionary songs during a march called “We walk for peace and life. Justice” in Managua, Nicaragua September 5, 2018. REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas/File Photo

i24 News – Nicaragua is breaking off diplomatic relations with Israel, the Central American dictatorship said on Friday, branding the Israeli government “fascist” and “genocidal.”

Nicaragua’s government, in a statement, said the break in relations was due to Israel’s military actions in Gaza. The nation’s congress had, earlier in the day, passed a resolution requesting Nicaragua take action to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the Gaza war, sparked by the deadliest antisemitic massacre since the Holocaust on October 7, 2023.

The conflict, the Nicaraguan government said, now also “extends against Lebanon and gravely threatens Syria, Yemen and Iran.”