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.
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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.”