Creating a Palestinian state alongside Israel is no longer enough to bring peace and justice to that region, South Africa told the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Tuesday. Instead, after Israel is legally declared to be engaging in the crime of apartheid, it must be forced to roll back half a decade of harm, dismantling infrastructure as well as laws. "While South Africa's foreign policy has always favoured a two-state solution, the prevailing conditions suggest that unless such an approach deals with the inequitable offering of land to Palestinians, the dismantling of all the illegal settlements, the rights of return to all Palestinian refugees, such a solution may... lead to the disenfranchisement of the indigenous people of Palestine and concretise the prevailing injustices brought about by decades of apartheid settler colonialism," ambassador Vusi Madonsela told the World Court.

Source: News 24 February 20, 2024 12:33 UTC