Palestine

Namibia reiterates Israel condemnation: Naanda

The Republic of Namibia has reiterated its strong condemnation of Israel for the killing of innocent civilians and forcible displacements of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the remainder of the Occupied Palestinian Territory. This is according to Executive Director in the Ministry of International Relations and Cooperation, Penda Naanda, in a press statement issued on Wednesday. “Namibia maintains the position that these acts mentioned above and the deliberate […]

11 January, 2024 22

Opinion Pieces

South Africa’s Legal Quest at the World Court Could Further Banish Israel

Early into the Israel-Hamas war: a burst water pipe amid the annihilation of Gaza, Oct. 10, 2023. South Africa has filed a lawsuit with the International Court of Justice alleging that Israel is intentionally committing genocide in Gaza. The bar is high to prove it, experts say. MOHAMMED BABA/MSF By Damilola Banjo via PassBlue The Genocide Convention was codified in 1948 in response to the atrocities committed against Jewish people and others […]

11 January, 2024 10

Opinion Pieces

South Africa is taking Israel to court for genocide in Palestine. What does it mean for the war in Gaza?

By Donald Rothwell, Australian National University South Africa has taken Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ, also known as the World Court) in The Hague claiming genocide has been committed against Palestinians during the Gaza conflict. A charge of genocide before the court in the midst of a heated armed conflict is exceptional. Likewise, the significance of South Africa’s claim against Israel has immense cultural, diplomatic, historical, […]

11 January, 2024 9

World

International Court of Justice to hear South Africa’s plea against Gaza ‘massacre’

The International Court of Justice will begin arguments on South Africa's bid to stop what it calls the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza. South Africa’s International Relations Director General, Zane Dangor told Newzroom Africa that institutionalised impunity has allowed a ‘textbook genocide to unfold in Gaza.’Separately, Al Jazeera reports that the United Nations’ humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths says Gaza has become a place of “death and despair” for Palestinians as […]

8 January, 2024 13

Press Releases

2023 : Alarming increase in journalists killed in conflict zones

UNESCO figures show that 2023 has been a particularly deadly year for journalists who work in conflict zones, with killings almost doubling compared to the past three years. The last three months of this year in particular have already been the deadliest quarter for journalists in conflict zones since at least 2007, with 27 deaths. 65 journalists have been killed in the line of duty in 2023, compared with […]

20 December, 2023 10

World

Biden warns of declining global support for Israel amid Gaza casualties

US President Joe Biden is warning that Israel is starting to lose global support over what he says is its indiscriminate bombing of civilians in Gaza. According to Al Jazeera, Palestinian health officials say more than 18-thousand people have been killed in the Israeli assault on Gaza since October seventh. Biden says there is no question about the need to take on Hamas, but Israel has to do it right […]

13 December, 2023 11

World

Former Hamas hostage, aged nine, now only ‘whispers’: father

Emily Hand, the nine-year-old girl released after Hamas held her hostage for 50 days, will now only talk in whispers having been ordered to stay silent by her captors, her father told British tabloid The Sun in an interview published on Wednesday. "She was a normal happy noisy kid but now she whispers -- she was moving her lips with no volume or even air coming out," Thomas Hand was […]

29 November, 2023 9

South Africa

President Ramaphosa appeals for more action from the international community in reviving the Israeli-Palestinian peace process

President Cyril Ramaphosa has concluded his working visit to the Arab Republic of Egypt with an appeal to the international community to do more in enabling the revival of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. The President traveled to Cairo, Egypt on 21 October 2023, to attend the Cairo Summit for Peace at the invitation of Egyptian President, His Excellency Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. In his plea to the international community, President Ramaphosa […]

23 October, 2023 14