The South African government has recalled its ambassador to Israel “until further notice” in response to the “violent aggression” by Israeli forces at the Gaza border on Monday.
At least 55 people, including women and children, were killed on Monday.
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RT reports: “The latest attack has resulted in scores of other Palestinian citizens reported injured, and the wanton destruction of property,” the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) said in a statement on Monday, as cited by Eyewitness News. “Given the indiscriminate and gravity of the latest Israeli attack, the South African government has taken a decision to recall Ambassador Sisa Ngombane with immediate effect until further notice.”
South Africa also repeated its view that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) must withdraw from the Gaza border and “bring to an end the violent and destructive incursions into Palestinian territories.”
The government also slammed the Israeli forces’ “routine actions,” which it says are an obstacle to peace. It stated that peace will “come in the form of two states, Israel and Palestine existing side-by-side and in peace.”
South Africa said it, like other members of the international community, is “disturbed by the latest deadly aggression and reiterates calls made by several members of the United Nations for an independent inquiry into the killings, with a view to holding to account those who are responsible.”
Israel has long been compared to South Africa during the Apartheid, in which black South Africans were subjected to racial segregation and discrimination from the 1950s until the early 1990s. A 2017 United Nations report accused Israel of establishing an apartheid regime that “oppresses and dominates the Palestinian people as a whole” in March. The report’s lead author resigned in protest after the report was removed from the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) website.
An international boycott of South Africa is said to have contributed towards pressuring the South African government. The organizers of the international Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel hopes its campaign could have a similar effect.
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Who da hell needs South Africa anyway ? South African blacks are murdering white farmers & taking their lands (by permission of their president )
well since 1947 reigning Supremo of Apartheid of racial /national religious identity there is better late than never?
Firstly they are not real jews…they are khazarians…they are from sth Russia a long time ago… they converted to judaism….secondly the british had no right to install them into Palestine…… Thirdly… The amewhoricans should stop licking khazarian ass…. There are still real jews in the world.. and they are still God’s chosen people…but these people murdering these palestinians are not them….