WATCH | SA will prove Israel’s genocide against Palestinians – Ramaphosa

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Cape Town — President Cyril Ramaphosa remains confident that South Africa will successfully demonstrate Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people.

South Africa, having experienced its own history of apartheid, has consistently supported Palestine and has submitted several bids to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), including increased aid and emergency measures.

In response to a question from John Hlophe, deputy leader of the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party, during a National Assembly session on Thursday, Ramaphosa affirmed his administration’s commitment to proving the genocide allegations.

He said that the government is diligently working to support the ICJ’s January ruling and will continue to strengthen its case before the UN’s top court, as reported by Newzrooom Afrika.

“As the honourable member knows we have continued to take action at the International Court of Justice, having initiated the action last year. We have continued to approach that court with further pleas and submissions to the court to make further rulings and to tighten up what they ruled in our favour last year,” he said.

“We’ve been fortunate to be joined by several other countries that have voiced and articulated their support for the case that South Africa initiated. We are now in the process of preparing almost a 500-page case which will be presented to the court, where we will be taking steps to prove that what we had approached the court on last year is the reality that Palestinians are living under,” Ramaphosa added.

“All these matters are various initiatives we continue to take, including the various matters some of the members are shouting about now. These are matters that, as the government, we are in the process of dealing with. When we started this court case, we were told that the initiatives we have taken are completely irrelevant and amounted to nothing, and when the ICJ ruled in our favour, it shut all those detractors out,” he said.
Ramaphosa maintained that South Africa would proceed with the “historic case” as it showcased the empathy of South Africans towards Palestinians and, in the next few weeks, would be submitting a new case.

“We are confident that we have a solid case to prove that genocide has happened and continues to happen in Palestine,” he concluded.

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