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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
JOHANNESBURG, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) — More than 100 pro-Palestinian activists held protests in three major cities in South Africa on Thursday, calling on the government to ban coal exports to Israel, which is accused of genocide in the Gaza Strip.
Protests against the energy embargo, organised by activist group Palestine Solidarity Campaign, took place in Pretoria, Cape Town and Durban. Local media reported that protesters had handed in a memorandum to the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition.
South Africa exported about 1.6 million metric tons of coal to Israel, according to the document, which criticizes the government for allowing South African ports to be used as “conduits for the transport of fuel, minerals and other dual-use goods to apartheid Israel.”
The protesters said in a memorandum that the South African government must “lead the implementation of the coal embargo and end our complicity in supplying the Israeli electricity grid that fuels the genocide, illegal occupation and apartheid Israeli military-industrial complex.”
The South African government has accused Israel of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, which began with a Hamas-led attack on October 7, 2023, in which about 1,200 Israelis and foreigners were killed and about 200 more were taken hostage.
More than 62,000 people have been killed and more than 157,000 injured in Israel's ongoing military operations in Gaza, according to Gaza-based health authorities. –0–
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