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International Relations Minister Naledi Pandor has questioned the perceived delay by the International Criminal Court in issuing an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Pandor told the media on Wednesday that she met with the ICC prosecutor at The Hague last week when she was in the Netherlands for the ruling on South Africa’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice.
Before approaching the ICJ, South Africa, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Comoros, and Djibouti wrote to the ICC, asking it to investigate Israel for war crimes amid the ongoing conflict with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Amid international concern over the growing death toll, families of some of the Israelis taken hostage by Hamas in their October 7 attacks had also sought ICC action.
South Africa made a referral to the body in November over its belief that war crimes were being committed in the occupied
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