Chile’s President Gabriel Boric has promised to step up the pressure against Israel over its onslaught in Gaza during his government’s last nine months in office, Al Jazeera reports.

He made the comments during a wide-ranging three-hour speech to the National Congress in the coastal city of Valparaiso. The speech is his last annual address to Congress.

In comments that prompted huge cheers and jeers from opposite sides of Congress, Boric said he will introduce a law to ban imports from what he called “illegally occupied territories” and back efforts by Spain for an arms embargo against Israel.

Boric had recently recalled military personnel from Chile’s embassy in Israel and summoned the ambassador for questioning, the report added.

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