CAPE TOWN: Greater than 3,000 folks marched by way of Cape City on Saturday (Sep 27), calling for South Africa to chop commerce and diplomatic ties with Israel, together with by shutting its embassy, over the war in Gaza.
Pretoria has been a number one critic of Israel’s actions in Gaza, bringing a case earlier than the United Nations’ high courtroom in December 2023 that argues Israel’s warfare within the Palestinian territory quantities to genocide, a cost Israel has denied.
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Saturday’s demonstration introduced collectively a number of pro-Palestinian organisations, political events and Muslim and Christian teams in one of many largest such gatherings in current months.
Waving Palestinian flags and carrying banners studying “Do not simply really feel unhealthy, do one thing”, the procession handed over a petition of calls for at parliament.
South Africa should “boycott, divest and sanction Israel, the identical means because the world did for us,” stated Palestine Solidarity Marketing campaign coordinator Usuf Chikte, referring to worldwide measures as soon as used to stress South Africa’s apartheid regime.
