Likewise, the country’s government has consistently called for “an immediate and permanent ceasefire and the resumption of talks.”
South Africa this Friday accused Israel before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the main judicial body of the United Nations, of alleged crimes of genocide committed during the war against the Islamist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
“A petition has been filed with the International Court of Justice (…) asking the court to declare as a matter of urgency that Israel is in violation of its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and must immediately cease all acts and measures that breach obligations,” the South African Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation said in a statement.
South Africa, as a signatory to the said convention against genocide, “has a duty” to “prevent” these types of massacres, he added.
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Before taking this measure, the statement said, South Africa “repeatedly” stated that it “condemns all violence and attacks against all civilians, including Israelis” and “continually calls for a Immediate and permanent ceasefire and resumption of talks“.
Last November, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that his country had asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate Israel’s abuses in its war in the Gaza Strip, after deploring “collective punishment” without “precedents” in history’.
The South African government has traditionally been a strong supporter of the Palestinian cause and the ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), has often linked that cause to its own struggle against the segregationist regime of the Palestinian territories. apartheid (1948-1994).
Source: EITB
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