Hommam Al Nassim 
Senegalese Prime Minister, Ousmane Sonko, called for solidarity with the Palestinian people, condemning the “ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.”
In his speech at a youth political rally in the capital, Dakar, Sonko accused the world’s major powers of complicity in the ongoing tragedy of death and destruction in Gaza for the past eight months.
In a direct appeal to Senegalese President, Macky Sall, Sonko urged Senegal to support South Africa’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, which accuses Israel of violating its obligations in the Gaza War under the Genocide Convention.
He said: “I will begin my speech by asking for a minute of prayer for the martyred people of Palestine… the people who are today being subjected to genocide with the complicity of all the powers of this world.”
He continued: “Those who identify themselves as the great democracies, and those who defend human rights, are today the biggest accomplices in the genocide being committed against the Palestinian people.”
South Africa filed its case against Israel last December, accusing it of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
Since then, more than 12 countries have joined or announced their intention to join the case.
Israel faces genocide charges before the International Court of Justice, which has issued a ruling to halt its military operations immediately in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, where more than a million Palestinians have taken refuge from the war before its invasion on May 6th.
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