South Africa condemns the massacre of 112 Palestinians and the wounding of hundreds more as they sought life-saving aid.
Israeli forces fired on hundreds of unarmed and vulnerable Palestinians in a continued offensive on Palestinians over the last four months.
This attack comes just days after Israel submitted a report to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and to which South Africa is preparing a response.
This latest atrocity constitutes another breach of International law and is at variance with the binding provisional orders of the ICJ.
Legal interventions are parts of the devices to end institutionalised impunity that Israel has enjoyed for decades. It has only been emboldened to act in a manner, just as it has done, for decades before that.
South Africa urged the international community to consider other measures to end the unlawful actions of the Israeli government.
A first step is an unconditional call for a ceasefire by the United Nations Security Council.
South Africa’s Department of International Relations And Cooperation, therefore, called for “an immediate and unconditional call for a ceasefire” as “now a moral and life-saving necessity.”
