SACP welcomes ICJ's order for the apartheid Israeli settler regime to halt its murderous military rampage, reiterates call for international isolation of the regime
SACP Communications
South African Communist Party
SACP welcomes ICJ’s order for the apartheid Israeli settler regime to halt its murderous military rampage, reiterates call for international isolation of the regime
Friday, 23 May 2024: The South African Communist Party (SACP) strongly condemns the apartheid Israeli settler regime’s genocide on Palestinian people and welcomes the ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ). In its ruling, delivered on Friday, 24 May 2024, the ICJ ordered the apartheid Israeli settler regime to immediately halt its murderous military rampage in the City of Rafah in Gaza and to abide by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
The ICJ also ordered the apartheid Israeli settler regime to allow direly needed essential services and humanitarian assistance into Rafah, ensure unimpeded access of any commission of inquiry, fact-finding mission or other investigative body mandated by the United Nations and to, within a month, submit a report to the Court on all measures taken to give effect to its order.
The latest order marks the third time this year the ICJ issued judicial orders against Israel’s genocidal rampage upon the people of Palestine. In the order, the ICJ went on to reaffirm its previous orders delivered on 26 January and 28 March and further ordered that the Israeli regime must immediately and effectively implement these orders. The SACP supports all the three orders issued by the ICJ and calls for an immediate permanent ceasefire, reaffirming unwavering solidarity with the Palestinian people in their just struggle for the freedom of historical Palestine, peace and justice.
The unambiguous orders issued by the ICJ since January should inspire more and more people and governments across the world to join South Africa in the judicial case against the apartheid Israeli settler regime – to halt the genocide on the people of Palestine. We commend the South African government for remaining steadfast in prosecuting the genocide. The SACP also reiterates its call for deeper unity among justice-loving people across the world, including co-operation of the people as well as governments and international bodies to isolate the apartheid Israeli regime economically, politically, culturally and otherwise.
Rafah is the last standing refugee camp from which the Palestinian people have nowhere to run amidst heavy indiscriminate bombardment by Israel. Since October 2023, the apartheid Israel regime has murdered approximately 36,000 people in Palestine, of whom at least 75 per cent are children – over 15,000, women and elderly people. More than 10,000 Palestinians are still under the rubble of their destroyed homes. This number include over 5,000 children. About 80,000 Palestinians have been heavily injured by Israel’s murderous machine.
The SACP continues to stand with the Palestinian people against expropriation and the occupation of their lands. The people of Palestine have the right to resist the atrocities they face, including the expropriation and occupation of their land by the settler colonialists. The SACP further condemns Israel’s continuing disregard of the ICJ’s orders and basic human rights.
To that end, the SACP further supports the global calls for the criminal prosecution of those in the Israeli regime’s hierarchy. We strongly denounce the International Criminal Court’s equation of Palestinian resistance efforts with the atrocious and genocidal attacks they have faced from the Israeli settler colonialists who have expropriated Palestinians of their land and deprived them of human and other fundamental rights, such as the right to self-determination and freedom of movement in their own land.