WASHINGTON, March 20 — South Africa’s top diplomat yesterday accused Israel of setting a precedent for leaders to defy the top UN court, as she again alleged a campaign of...
South Africa’s top diplomat yesterday accused Israel of setting a precedent for leaders to defy the top UN court, pointing to its campaign of starvation in Gaza. — AFP picWASHINGTON, March 20 — South Africa’s top diplomat yesterday accused Israel of setting a precedent for leaders to defy the top UN court, as she again alleged a campaign of starvation in Gaza.
“The provisional measures have been entirely ignored by Israel,” Pandor said at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace during a visit to Washington.“We’re seeing mass starvation now and famine before our very eyes,” she said. “I think we, as humanity, need to look at ourselves in horror and dismay and to be really worried that we have set an example.”
South Africa has again petitioned the court in The Hague to order measures for Israel to stop “widespread starvation” triggered by its Gaza offensive. Last year the US ambassador in Pretoria accused South Africa of violating its stated neutrality in the Ukraine war by letting a Russian vessel dock to load military supplies, an allegation later walked back by Washington.
Russian President Vladimir Putin skipped a summit last year in Johannesburg of the BRICS bloc of emerging economies. Putin is the target of an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court, which South Africa as a court member would in theory be expected to enforce.
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