SACP conveys message of solidarity to Palestinian people following the murder of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar by apartheid Israel

25 October 2024

The South African Communist Party (SACP) reaffirms its revolutionary solidarity with the people of Palestine against colonial and apartheid occupation and segregation of their land, the genocide and other human rights violations, and murder of Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar, committed by the Israeli settler regime.

We stand in solidarity with the entire axis of resistance in the Middle East, including Syria, Iran and Lebanon, against the killings, destruction and other attacks and violations of their sovereignty and human rights by the United States-backed Israeli settler regime.

Sinwar, whose anti-occupation and anti-colonial banner will not fall, is celebrated across Palestine as the respected head of Hamas’ Political Bureau and Commander of the Battle of the Flood of Al-Aqsa. The SACP strongly condemns Israel for his murder, the genocide and colonial occupation and segregation of Palestinian land.

Through its genocidal campaign, the Zionist apartheid Israeli settler regime has murdered over 42,800 Palestinians in Gaza since October 2023, in addition to the hundreds of thousands more it has murdered and displaced since the dawn of its imperialist collective West-supported occupation of Palestine in 1947. Apartheid, regardless of who has adopted and practices it, remains a crime against humanity, condemned by the United Nations.

In its insatiable quest for bloody ethnic cleansing and to conceal its egregious crime punishable under the International Criminal Court, the apartheid Israeli settler regime has also murdered journalists and United Nations workers.

The SACP equally condemns the killings by the apartheid Israeli settler regime in Syria, and Lebanon, where it has murdered over 2,500 people over the past month.

In taking the struggle for global justice, the SACP calls for more global support for the International Court of Justice’s denouncing of the genocidal Israeli regime. The best action for world justice can only come from the global community, the majority of whom are working-class and poor.

The SACP will continue to actively participate in solidarity protests across our country in support of the struggle for Palestinian freedom and peace in the Middle East.

Issued by Alex Mashilo, National Spokesperson, SACP, 25 October 2024