The Foreign Ministry also accused South Africa of collaborating with Hamas.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry has rejected “with disgust” South Africa’s claim that it is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, which was filed in the International Court of Justice, in a statement on Friday.
The ministry denounced the assertion that its actions in Gaza are “genocidal in character” as “baseless,” calling the claim an anti-Semitic “blood libel” and accusing South Africa of working with Hamas.
“South Africa’s claim has no factual and judicial basis and is a despicable and cheap exploitation of the court,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Lior Haiat said, adding, “South Africa is collaborating with a terror group that calls for the destruction of the State of Israel.”
Haiat blamed Hamas for the “suffering of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip,” claiming that the militant group is “using them as human shields and stealing humanitarian aid from them.”
“Israel is committed to international law and acts in accordance with it, and directs its military efforts only against the Hamas terrorist organization and the other terrorist organizations cooperating with Hamas,” he continued, insisting, “Israel has made it clear that the residents of the Gaza Strip are not the enemy, and is making every effort to limit harm to the non-involved.”
Israel has killed over 21,500 Palestinians in Gaza since October 7, mostly women and children, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. Over 1.8 million of the territory’s 2.3 million inhabitants have been displaced by Israeli bombing, which current and former Israel Defense Forces officials acknowledge has deliberately targeted civilian sites to increase “civilian pressure” on Hamas.
South Africa’s filing alleges that “acts and omissions by Israel… are genocidal in character, as they are committed with the requisite specific intent… to destroy Palestinians in Gaza as part of the broader Palestinian national, racial and ethnic group,” accusing the government of violating its obligations under the UN’s Genocide Convention.
The filing seeks “provisional measures” to protect against “further, severe and irreparable harm” to Palestinians in Gaza, including, but not limited to, a ceasefire and the cancelation of any orders aimed at depriving Palestinians of food, water, shelter, fuel, medical supplies, or other humanitarian needs. Those found to have engaged in “direct and public incitement to genocide” must also be punished, it said.
South Africa’s National Assembly voted last month to suspend diplomatic relations with Israel until it agrees to a ceasefire in Gaza. The country has also recalled its diplomats in protest over Israel’s brutal bombardment of the enclave.
Last month, South Africa filed a referral to the International Criminal Court, calling for an investigation into alleged war crimes by Israel in Gaza. While West Jerusalem does not recognize the ICC, the court has previously claimed jurisdiction over Gaza and the West Bank.
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While we’re throwing stones from our glass houses about genocide, how are those South African farm murder stats looking?
Asking for a friend.
Exactly!
And why is it that over 30 years since apartheid ended, average people in SA are still living in squalor and shanty towns, and the crime is so dangerous that people sleep in cages built in their own bedrooms in case people break in in the middle of the night, not to mention violent car jackings in the middle of the day.
I think that is called whataboutism
Nah, whataboutism is when hapless simpletons try to mock you with a fake, made up nonsense-word because you just pointed out their blatant hypocrisy or made a statement they can’t refute.
You were close though 👍
No, whataboutism is trying to deflect the narrative to something else. Here being South Africa having a less than stellar government, to deflect from Israel’s genocide that South Africa is rightly pointing out.
Ad Hominem attacks are when you call someone a hapless simpleton, just an fyi.
I wasn’t trying to mock you, just pointing out your deflection from the actual story. Instead of whataboutism, maybe you would prefer the term, shoot the messenger.
Bro, I wasn’t attacking you at all. I was just describing whataboutism as I’ve experienced it. No idea why you would think that was aimed at you, it’s not like you were accusing me of it or anything. It’s just (like I said) a made up nonsense-word that grinds my gears because it’s pseudo-intellectualism posing as a debate tactic. Sorry, pet peev…
I also wasn’t trying to deflect by bringing up South Africa; the article is specifically about South Africa doing something 🤷🏼♂️
It’s also the lefties and islamophiles who keep screaming APARTHEID STATE every 5 mins, not me.
Aww that doesn’t change what Israel is doing, does it but nice try, nonetheless….
Comment was about South Africa, not Israel.
Try to keep up.
At least one positive action in 2023.
Thank you South Africa.
The truth seems to have become ” anti-semitic” now !! 🤣🤣
The old trick again, screaming ” anti- semitism” while they are just murdering scum and have been for more than 70 years.
As for the murders happening in south africa, murders happen in every countries. Also among ” whites”. Background being envy, greed or revanche. Universal motive. BUT IT IS NOT THE SOUTH AFRICAN ARMY WHO MURDERS CITIZENS, LIKE TSAHAL IS EXTERMINATING PALESTINIAN WOMEN AND CHILDREN ALIKE IN A SCALE NEVER SEEN.
Scott ritter says in one of his video that they are just coward scums. Throwing bombs at people. I agree with him . SCUM
As for living in squalor, look at all the US veterans or those numerous american citizen sleeping rough, homeless and begging in the streets of all US big cities .
Or US citizen ” rich country” sleeping in their cars while working.
Virtue signaling wont help you in this.
You should think before writing those inept comments.
I don’t know who you are, but there is a 4-letter word and you all full of it.
When having no rational argument, “we” resort to insult. Weak.
Truth always hurt when at receiving end.
Now the world can see what israhell is really. A lying, murderous, apartheid state.
Those who support this genocide of palestinians are complicit .
Shameless
Truth hurts does it. Israel is killing 145ish children every day, for the last 80 odd days. About two thirds of those children are 12 and under. If this is them trying to minimise civilian deaths, I would hate to see otherwise.
And, they have destroyed a large part of ordinary Palestinians home and infrastructure.
And as for the US, they milk their citizens for money to support war. Whilst the vulnerable and needy get diddly squat.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/31/israeli-airstrikes-kill-dozens-in-gaza-netanyahu-hamas
“BUT IT IS NOT THE SOUTH AFRICAN ARMY WHO MURDERS CITIZENS…”
Funny you should mention that. Much testimony and many sworn affidavits make mention of how there was a sudden and inexplicable loss of cell reception during some of the attacks. Surveillance and CCTV footage of intruders strapped with backpacks with long poles coming out the top, like military-style communication jammers.
Also the small issue of the government continually vilifying the white farmer population and blaming them for all the poverty and decay that has stemmed from decades of GOVERNMENT corruption. One clown in particular who enjoys regularly getting on stage and singing, “bring me my machine gun so I can SHOOT THE FARMER.”
Far more than just “universal motive”. It’s open racism, government sanctioned and tolerated by the precious UN and other globalist bodies because it’s being perpetrated against an approved demographic.
So yeah, South Africa’s government can pretty much GF itself 🙂👍
Israel may or may not be a lot of things, but the SA government has got no room to talk.
Agree with you on the treatment of US veterans though, it’s a damn disgrace. President Leslie Nielsen and his clown cabinet need to go.
White boers under attack : what goes around comes around as the saying goes. No one forget centuries of ferocious oppression , repression and racial seggregation. Calvinistic mentality is harsh. They are now on the receiving end as ” accounts are settled” .
As for corruption, South Africa has become like all western governments. Indeed corrupt to the nth degree.
Abject poverty is not only present in south africa. When people in western societies need food banks and kids go to school on an empty stomach, there is something profundly wrong with our ” democraties”
“They are now on the receiving end as ” accounts are settled”
See, comments like this one demonstrate why your hypocrisy is bordering on comical. It’s apparently good that white people in South Africa are being slaughtered because they deserve to be punished for things that other people may or may not have done hundreds of years before they were born. Because guilt is hereditary, right? 👍
Let’s not dwell on the fact that we’re not from that part of the world and know nothing about it’s history other than what we’ve been told. Those long-deceased colonists were just evil racists who climbed on ships from Europe, sailing the world in search of peace loving sandal-wearing kumbaya-singing tribes to enslave and be racist to. Uh huh 😒
There’s definitely zero chance that some of their decisions could have been a reaction to Zulu impi killing their livestock, razing their farms or slaughtering their women and children. Nope, history is DEFINITELY not so nuanced. Some people are just inherently bad, so bad that their descendants should be murdered in their beds at night because “karma”. Jesus 🤦🏼
You espouse these stupid points of view (and the idiotic “apartheid state” talking point) and then wonder why the Israelis refuse to stop fighting. Because they know if they do, it won’t be long before they too will start being genocided while islamophiles and leftist imbeciles say, “oh well, karma 🤷🏼♂️”
To end ANY war, either:
1)BOTH sides agree to stand down and make concessions/compromise (Israel have done this many times over the last 3 decades FYI).
2)One side conquers and eradicates the other (this is the stated goal of HAMAS, it is what they flood their national airwaves with and even teach their kindergarteners).
So perhaps that’s really why we are where we are. Maybe the Israelis are tired of option 1 failing.
And yes, I’m aware that Israel are guilty of a lot of terrible things too. I’m not defending that, I’m just saying that expecting me to believe “everything is their fault because they’re evil on a cellular level and deserve to be eradicated” is not something you’re going to sell me. Sorry.
My hope deep down inside is that option 1 wins once again and that the Palestinians actually keep their word this time, but I guess we’ll see.
Agree with you that their is something wrong with our modern democracies, a lot actually.
Seems the pro Israel trolls are out in force but doesn’t change the facts, well said.
Never get high on your own supply
The commenters are correct and have valid points.
The hypocrisy on a global scale is unbelievable!!!!
Why are U.S. Veterans and the working poor sleeping in the streets and their cars, and have no monetary assistance?
Because each U.S. family pays an average of $30K per year to…ISRAEL!!! Throw-in the money wasted in J***** Ukraine (aka ‘Khazaria’ according to Rabbi Schneerson, in 1994) and it will be even more!
The U.S. is actually ‘ Israel West’, and Israel has used the police state of Amerika like a whore!
Bibi has said that the U.S. can take hit after hit for money going to Israel, and then the U.S. will be destroyed.
“That is what we do to countries that we hate!”-Benjamin Netanyahu
War criminal Bibi’s actions in Palestine confirms the genocidal monster that he truly is, and it won’t stop after the Palestinians have been eradicated;
Israel will then go after Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, parts of Saudi and the eastern part of Egypt, as noted on Henry Kissinger’s map of ‘Greater Israel (which is not including the re-drawn map of the Ukraine re-labeled as Greater Israel Khazaria!
Contrary to popular propaganda
The Jews are not and have never been a Semitic people
Who stem from ‘the’ Adam Et YAdam the Son of YAHWAH God His first begotten Luke 3:38
Genesis 2:7
And Seth who was compensation for the slain Abel
Adam of a ruddy complexion to show blood in the face to blush
The White Adamic race is the only race that can blush
It is quite incredible that changing two words at Revelation 2:9 – 3:9
And leaving one out at John 8:37
Has put the whole world into a spin
Although the earth is stationary and not rotating at over 1000mph
Analemma
Virtue signaling ?? or logorrhea ??
Trotting out the anti semetic chesnut again. Sorry I killed you but your family best not criticise me for it because that’s racist! Does that crap really have legs anymore? Its genocide and it needs to stop. No one gives two shits about the race of those committing it.
https://youtu.be/mFHlG4W6RgA?si=HStYRAsl3bvmhe57
Ursula von der leijen = Frau genocide !!!
Demented, godless old hag. She’s the one who advocated for an “update” to human rights laws at the height of the scamdemic.
Evil incarnate.
https://www.quora.com/How-did-the-Jews-buy-land-under-the-Ottoman-Empire-despite-restrictions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_land_purchase_in_Palestine