THE SA Communist Party (SACP) has condemned Israel’s deadly attacks against Palestinian settlements following the escalation of clashes between Hamas and the Israeli Defence Force on Wednesday.
At least 30 Palestinians, including 10 children, and three Israelis were killed as tensions in Jerusalem spread west toward the seacoast Tuesday.
Israeli airstrikes also flattened a multi-story apartment building in Gaza and rockets fired from the Gaza Strip reached Tel Aviv in an unusually far-reaching barrage that sent residents of Israel’s largest city scrambling into bomb shelters.
“The SACP strongly condemns Israel on its attack on Palestinians and its US-backed colonisation of Jerusalem, and calls upon the United Nations to exert extensive pressure on the Israeli regime to abandon its apartheid policy on Palestine,” said SACP spokesperson Alex Mashilo.
“Apartheid, declared a crime against humanity by the United Nations, was bad for South Africa, and it is also bad for Palestine –though
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