Dean of St Georges Cathedral calls for peace vigil
Several hundred people held a protest outside the offices of the Zionist Federation in Cape Town in solidarity with Palestinians on Wednesday.
Hamas militants entered Israel on 7 October, killing over 1,200 Israeli civilians and soldiers and kidnapping about 100 people. Hundreds of young people at a music concert were shot dead. Israel responded to the attack by bombing Gaza, killing hundreds so far, and blocking the supply of food and electricity.
A joint statement from BDS South Africa, the organisers of Wednesday's protest, read:"We the people of South Africa refuse to collude with Israeli apartheid and therefore demand our government acts to end Israeli impunity and absolute disregard for international law." He said the campaign was going to"form a global convention against apartheid to ensure that the UN anti-apartheid convention is being activated so that we can apply sanctions against Israel as we applied them in South Africa".There was a problem processing your submission. Please try again later.Earlier in the day, about 50 people had gathered for a vigil at St George's Cathedral.
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