Inside Politics Reporter
Government has officially filed papers on Friday asking the United Nations’ International Court of Justice under the genocide Convention to force Israel to stop its military attacks against Palestinians in Gaza.
“South Africa is gravely concerned with the plight of civilians caught in the present Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip due to the indiscriminate use of force and forcible removal of inhabitants.”
“Furthermore, there are ongoing reports of international crimes, such as crimes against humanity and war crimes, being committed as well as reports that acts meeting the threshold of genocide or related crimes as defined in the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, have been and may still be committed in the context of the ongoing massacres in Gaza,” International Relations and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor said in a statement on Friday evening.
Pandor said South Africa has repeatedly stated that
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