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Faizel Patel – 15/05/2021
The SA BDS coalition says atrocities does not even begin to describe the devastating attacks that Israeli occupation forces have inflicted on Palestinians in the Gaza strip.
The organizations Roshan Dadoo was speaking to Radio Islam on Saturday, a day after the Eid-ul-Fitr outside the Israeli embassy in Pretoria as part of Nakba Day
Nakba Day is the annual day of commemoration of the Nakba, also known as the Palestinian Catastrophe, which comprised the destruction of Palestinian society and homeland in 1948, and the permanent displacement of a majority of the Palestinian people by Israel.
Dadoo says scenes in Gaza is heartbreaking.
“To says atrocities doesn’t even describe the complete blitzing of Gaza, the demolition of homes, people fleeing from the rubble practically of where their homes used to be.”
Dadoo says people are uprising against the Israeli occupation forces and an unacceptable form of oppression.
“So, we stand in solidarity with them and we want to call on the South African government, we are here outside the Israeli embassy to say close it down. We don’t want to have diplomatic relations with an apartheid state. We don’t want to have normal relations with abnormal state.”
Dadoo says they will be handing over a memorandum of demands to a representative of the South African government which includes a demand for an isolation of Israel and for sanctions and an arms embargo to be imposed on a country that is inflicting unfathomable attacks on women and children.
`Listen to the interview with Roshan Dadoo
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