She called South Africa Today, Monday, the United Nations decided to deploy a rapid force to protect civilians in… Gazaamid the intensification of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, which has led to the fall of 8,300 Palestinian martyrs so far, most of whom are women and children.
“Entire generations of families have been wiped out in Gaza over the past three weeks,” the South African Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The statement added that 25 members of the family of a member of the Palestinian community in Johannesburg They were killed in an Israeli air strike on Monday morning, while family members of a senior Palestinian diplomat in South Africa were killed in their apartment building the day before.
“The numbers of non-combatants killed, especially the numbers of children killed, require the world to show that it is serious about global accountability,” the statement said.
South Africa has long advocated peace in the region, likening the plight of the Palestinians to what it witnessed under Apartheid system Which ended in 1994.
By calling for the formation of a protection force, South Africa’s support for the Palestinians exceeds that of most countries, some of which have called for a ceasefire, or the opening of a humanitarian corridor to allow aid to enter Gaza.
Mediation offer
He was the president of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa He has previously offered to help mediate the conflict.
South Africa also said earlier this month that the Foreign Minister had made a phone call with a leader agitation regarding bringing aid into Gaza, but stressed that it does not support the movement.
It is noteworthy that on the seventh of this October, it was launched Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades -The military arm of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) – and other Palestinian resistance factions are operational Al-Aqsa flood against the Israeli occupation, and has so far killed more than 1,400 Israelis.
The Palestinian resistance also captured more than 200 Israelis, and announced that it wanted to exchange them for more than 6,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons.
For its part, Israel continues its aggression against Gaza, bombing homes, schools, hospitals and mosques, which led to the martyrdom of more than 8,300 Palestinians, most of them women and children.