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Thursday, January 11, 2024
Foreign Ministry: South Africa is ‘legal arm of Hamas,’ ignores terror group’s attempt to carry out genocide on Oct. 7
Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter
After South Africa presents its genocide case against Israel in The Hague, Israel calls the proceedings “one of the greatest displays of hypocrisy in history.”
Foreign Ministry Spokesman Lior Haiat says that South Africa “is functioning as the legal arm of Hamas,” and accuses Pretoria of “ignoring the fact that Hamas terrorists infiltrated Israel, murdered, executed, slaughtered, raped and kidnapped Israeli citizens, just because they were Israelis, in an attempt to carry out genocide.”
In his tweet, Haiat says that South Africa “seeks to allow Hamas to return to commit the war crimes, crimes against humanity and sexual crimes they committed repeatedly on October 7.”
He also calls South Africa’s lawyers “the representatives of Hamas at the court.”
The Times of Israel Community.