Civic bodies call for Gaza probe in SA

Dual-citizen South Africans/israeliS could be criminally charged with war crimes.

TWO civil society organisations have asked the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to “investigate and, if appropriate, prosecute” more than 70 people suspected of war crimes or crimes against humanity in Israel’s invasion of Gaza in December and January.

The Palestinian Solidarity Alliance (PSA) and the Media Review Network (MRN) earlier this week gave the NPA a file of about 3500 pages, which they said indicated prima facie evidence that “South African citizens and/or residents are implicated in the commissions of these crimes”.

Their advocates, John Dugard SC, who was the United Nations special rapporteur for the Commission on Human Rights, Max du Plessis and Feroze Boda told the NPA that the evidence “is sufficient to justify a full and proper investigation ... of the named foreign and South African perpetrators”. More

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