30 September 2024

The South African Communist Party (SACP) condemns the apartheid Israeli settler regime’s murder of the Secretary General of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, and other Lebanese people in a continuous imperialist aggression, threatening Lebanon’s national sovereignty and violating international law. The attacks escalate tensions against the axis of resistance to imperialism.

The United Nations’ records show that, owing to the apartheid Israeli settler regime’s attacks on the people of Lebanon, more than 50,000 have fled Lebanon for Syria. At least 700 people since Monday and on Sunday alone 105 people were killed and 359 wounded in the attacks by the apartheid Israeli settler regime as its army jets continued nonstop bombardment across Lebanon, including suburbs of the capital Beirut.

The attacks by the apartheid Israeli settler regime, which has the automatic backing of the imperialist regime of the United States, have led to the displacement of over 200,000 people inside Lebanon.

Israel’s attacks against Lebanon happen within the context of its heinous crimes in Palestine, in which the occupying regime has killed over 41,586 people in Gaza since 7 October 2023 in an act of genocide. A third of the casualties are children, with thousands still buried under destroyed buildings and infrastructure, including over 5,000 children.

All these are crimes for which the apartheid Israeli regime’s leaders must account. The continued attacks are also within the apartheid Israel’s quest to control the Middle East region in pursuit of a bigger imperialist agenda.

The SACP conveys its message of solidarity to the people of Lebanon in their defence for their independence and national sovereignty. We further call for international solidarity for the people in the Middle East who have been the victims of colonial land expropriation and imperialist bombardment for many decades.

Issued by Alex Mohubetswane Mashilo, National Spokesperson, SACP, 30 September 2024