Activists ask South Africa to stop exports to Israel

Afghan Voice Agency (AVA) - Monitoring: South African coal is responsible for powering 15% of Israel's power grid, and this needs to stop immediately.

South Africa is the largest trade partner with Israel in Africa, and over the past eight months, it has shipped over 500,000 tons of coal to the brutal regime, placing it among the top three suppliers globally.

By exporting coal to Israel, we are effectively aiding and abetting that genocide. But we are also taking it a step further, and it's not as limited to coal.

We believe very firmly, and that has also been the case in our Apartheid South African history, that any economic or any other relations that you have with the State of Israel is aiding and abetting and propping up a genocidal state, a pariah state, an apartheid state.

A stark reminder of the vicious consequences of the misuse of vital resources is the Congo where uranium exploited from Congolese mines was used in the American nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Almost 80 years later, Congolese activists say Africa must exert its right over these resources.

The experience of Congo must make everybody see what the next move of the leading force of corporates [sic] which are trying to push the killing machine, to become a massive killing machine.

In its assessment of South Africa's genocide case against Israel, the International Court of Justice insists that all states should halt any aid or assistance to Israel which assists it in maintaining its illegal presence in the occupied Palestinian territory.

Campaigners believe that by continuing to supply resources such as coal to the regime, South Africa, therefore, is falling foul of the very remedy it sought from the international body.

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