ISRAEL LATEST ATTACKS ON GAZA @KASIBCNEWS

ISRAEL LATEST ATTACKS ON GAZA @KASIBCNEWS 

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) unequivocally condemns the latest mass killings of Palestinians by the apartheid state of Israel, which on 15 May 2025 massacred over 140 innocent people, including 45 children, in Gaza and continued its systematic campaign of destruction against hospitals, clinics, and vital infrastructure in Gaza. 

This latest attack coincided with the 77th anniversary of the Nakba, the catastrophic expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinians from their land in 1948 to make way for the colonial creation of Israel. 

That this bloodshed occurred on Nakba Day is not accidental, it is part of the sustained and deliberate cruelty that has become a hallmark of the Zionist state. 

To murder Palestinians in their sleep on the very day that marks their historical dispossession is to rub salt into generations of open wounds.  This is the real genocide — the deliberate annihilation of a people through mass killings, starvation, the denial of humanitarian aid, and the decimation of every means of survival. 

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have now been slaughtered in Israel’s brutal and illegal assault, with the full backing of the United States and its allies. 

The EFF calls on the international community to stop entertaining the double standards of Western imperialist powers. While the United States tries to distract the world with politically motivated unfounded accusations of a white genocide against South Africa — the very country that has led the charge against Israeli war crimes at the International Court of Justice — it is actively arming and funding the real genocide in Gaza. 

We, therefore, reject with contempt this attempt to divert global attention away from the suffering of the Palestinian people through “refugee” programmes for white supremacists. The billions in military aid sent by the US government to Israel are not for “defence”; they are bullets for the bodies of Palestinian children, missiles for hospitals, and tanks for refugee camps. 

In light of this, the EFF reaffirms its call for the complete isolation of Israel. All diplomatic, economic, cultural, and sporting ties must be severed until the apartheid regime is dismantled and justice is restored to the people of Palestine. 

We further reiterate our call for the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador from South Africa and the closure of the Israeli embassy. As South Africa, a nation born of struggle and international solidarity, we refuse to be silent. Palestine will be free in our lifetime.