SOUTH AFRICA FM DESTROYS FAKE NEWS

Let's be honest in reporting on the Palestine-Israel conflict, urged South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor.

She was responding to Cornelius Mulder, a member of the South African National Assembly. He had asked during Pandor's 7 November address to the elected body if the South African government denies widespread claims of Palestinian resistance group Hamas beheading babies. That went viral after Nicole Zedeck, a reporter with Tel Aviv-based news channel, i24, said during a live broadcast on 10 October that she had spoken to Israeli soldiers who claimed to have seen bodies of babies that Hamas had decapitated. US President Joe Biden later walked back his claim that he had seen images of decapitated babies. Israeli authorities also confirmed the claims are unverified.

Pandor amplified the facts that some quarters are trying to downplay: The Palestinian people had been denied their human rights for long before the 7 October escalation in Gaza.

This exchange came after Pandor announced that South Africa had recalled its ambassador in Israel on 6 November, in condemnation of Israel's attacks on Palestine. More than 10,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and 155 Palestinians in the West Bank have been killed since the conflict between Palestine and Israel escalated 7 October. Meanwhile, about 1,400 Israelis have been killed, with approximately 200 held hostage.

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