President Ramaphosa says Israel’s “torment” of Gaza continues “unabated” as more than 41,000 Palestinians have been killed.
“Famine and disease stalk the streets of Gaza. This cannot but shock our collective humanity. The violence the Palestinian people are being subjected to is a grim continuation of more than half a century of apartheid that has been perpetrated against Palestinians by Israel.
“We South Africans know what apartheid looks like. We lived through apartheid. We suffered and died under apartheid. We will not remain silent and watch as apartheid is perpetrated against others.
“Through the United Nations and the instruments it wields, we must end the suffering that Palestinians are being subjected to.”
He added international law cannot be applied “selectively”, saying no one state is “more equal than any other”.
