Ntshavheni expects ICC to grant arrest warrant for Netanyahu
Cabinet says it expects the International Criminal Court to soon issue a warrant of arrest for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
President Cyril Ramaphosa last week said the government believes war crimes are being committed in Gaza by Israel.
He said Israel had become a law unto itself and called on the Hague-based tribunal and the UN Security Council to act.
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Minister in Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni reiterated government's position at a post-cabinet briefing earlier.
"It is because of these continued atrocities that are being committed with impunity by the Israeli government, with the support and protection of powerful countries that, on the 17th, South Africa together with Comoros, Djibouti, Bolivia and Bangladesh jointly referred the situation in Palestine and Israel to the International Criminal Court."
Ntshavheni says the arrest warrant should have been issued by the time the UN climate conference gets underway in New York from later this month.
"Failure to do so, will be indicative of a lack of will to act by the ICC and a strong signal to the total failure of the total systems of global governance and justice and the need to establish a new system."
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