Johannesburg - SANA
South Africa strongly condemned the barbaric Zionist attacks in the occupied Palestinian territories, the illegal displacement of Palestinians from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied Jerusalem, and the replacement of Israeli settlers in their place.
The South African government affirmed in a statement after its meeting chaired by President Cyril Ramaphosa that the actions of the Israeli entity “constitute a flagrant violation of international law and a complete disregard for UN Security Council resolutions, including Resolutions 446 of 1979 and Resolution 2334 of 2016, which call clearly and explicitly to end the Israeli occupation and guarantee the rights of the Palestinian people. Including the right to self-determination and full independence.
The government called on the Israeli authorities to "stop their barbaric and barbaric attacks on the Palestinians and implement the international legitimacy decisions to establish a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital."
In addition, the ruling African National Congress in South Africa renewed its support for the Palestinian people in their struggle for freedom and self-determination, condemning in the strongest terms the unlawful evictions of Palestinians from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and the brutal attacks on Palestinian demonstrators in the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, calling on the international community to prevent The Israeli entity could continue to expand its illegal occupation of Palestinian lands and properties.
The South African Communist Party also condemned “strongly the Israeli attacks and attacks on the Palestinians and their colonization of Jerusalem with American support,” and called on the United Nations to “exert maximum pressure on the Israeli regime to abandon its policy of racial discrimination against the Palestinians.”
The party expressed its "unconditional solidarity with the Palestinian people in their war against the Israeli apartheid regime" and said: It supports "all efforts aimed at strengthening international solidarity as well as democratic and peaceful activities in support of the oppressed Palestinian people."
He called on the United Nations to "exert real pressure on these international criminals and force them to abide by international law."