(JNS) South Africa’s Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor has said that the International Criminal Court should have already issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “for war crimes committed against Palestinians in Gaza.”
“I believe that the ICC needs to make a decision as to whether in terms of war crimes, are they being committed. They must make the decision, same as they did with the Russian president,” Pandor said in an interview on MSNBC during a visit to the United States.
Pandor also addressed South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, saying: “[South Africa is] the only country that has a similar experience to the Palestinian people and that has been firmly attached to the struggle for freedom and human rights.”
The foreign minister also said that she knew how to improve the humanitarian aid situation in Gaza: “We need to get aid into Palestine. I know how we can do it. All the countries, which are powerful countries with big armies, that are giving arms to Israel, they must send their soldiers to the Rafah border to escort the 700 trucks into Gaza.”
