More than 2 million people remain trapped inside the Gaza Strip. Ongoing hostilities and dwindling aid supplies have driven up stress levels — especially among children — with mental health needs growing by the day.
South Africa condemned the bombing of civilian targets in the Gaza Strip by Israel, following a missile strike last week on the Al-Ahri Arab hospital in the enclave.
South Africa joins the global condemnation of the bombing, which is a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement late Wednesday.
It said Israel has bombed, burned and destroyed at least 35 hospitals in Gaza since October 2023. Attacks on health facilities, medical personnel and patients are considered a war crime under the IV Geneva Convention of 1949.
Pointing out the killing of 15 Palestinian health and civil defense workers in Gaza, who were deliberately fired upon by Israeli forces while on a rescue mission.
Deliberate attacks on medics and humanitarian workers are prohibited by international law and constitute war crimes. First responders like civilians and other non-combatants are never legitimate targets.
Expressing concern about Israel’s blockade of aid into Gaza since March 2, 2025. This is in defiance of the binding provisional orders of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which ordered Israel to ensure unhindered access of humanitarian aid in Gaza.
The ministry urged the international community to hold Israel accountable through effective counter-measures, as the impunity enjoyed by Israel has emboldened its genocidal actions in Palestine.
After South Africa instituted proceedings at the International Court of Justice against Israel for violations of the 1948 Genocide Convention in Gaza, several countries joined the case including Colombia, Cuba, Libya, Mexico, Spain, Belize, and Türkiye.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) separately issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
US President Donald Trump has sanctioned the ICC for its investigation against Israeli officials.
America’s leading Zionist lobby group AIPAC bankrolling Arabian genocide
The ongoing Israeli genocidal war against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip since 7 October 2023, which has lasted for over 560 days, has killed over 50,000 people, including more than 16,000 children.
This includes nearly 200 infants who were born and martyred during the war.
A UN investigation concluded that the occupying forces committed acts of genocide in the Gaza Strip through the systematic destruction of reproductive healthcare facilities.
Middle East Monitor / ABC Flash Point News 2025.
The Ashkenazim used to live in the ghettos of Eastern Europe – far away from where the Christians of Europe lived and therefore they did not get the chance to go around destroying Christian properties. In addition, they were so poor and they did not have enough to eat and therefore they did not have the weapons they would have needed to destroy Christian properties. But in Palestine, they are heavily armed and they are finding pleasure in going around destroying Palestine. Remember that the religion of the Jews tells them to show no mercy to the non-Jews.
US tax payers are being drawn into this genocide, and there is nothing we can do about it. why?
Correct and voting does not help either?