hostages on condition that Israel immediately stop the war in Gaza and withdraws from Gaza entirely. There is also a call that the resistance continues its firepower and used Allah and call him Allah ... [Inaudible.] ... to Allah to support him to defeat Israel. Al Jama-ah is torn between these two positions. But let me applaud Mama Naledi Pandor. Al Jama-ah stands with you. And let me applaud President Ramaphosa, who wants the arms sales of South Africa to Israel to stop. Last year it was R30 billion. And the white rule, led by adorable Steenhuisen, such calls will not be made in 2024 in the South African which the DA has a hope to rule. Israel may not be a state. It is a people, Al Jama- ah condemns the Zionist groups, especially the Jewish Board of Deputies for heaping insults on the Minister and for disparaging her office. This is treasonous behaviour, and the Minister of Justice must act.

It is now time to enforce the legal provisions of the Regulation of Foreign Military Assistance Act by prosecuting the African citizens taking part in the genocide in Gaza and serving in Israel's army of fascists, barbarians, and the worst of all mankind. Also to be prosecuted are those engaged in the alleged recruitment and development of South African citizens. Occupying powers do not have a right to defend themselves. Occupied people can shoot rockets. The Al-Aqsa Flood has opened the eye of everyone globally that the real enemy of humanity is the triumphant of the West, the US's Biden, UK's Sunak and France's Macron. They've contributed arms to the Zionist state that has been responsible for in the endless atrocities in Palestinian areas. The Israel people are their puppets.

Al Jama-ah thank Minister Naledi Pandor for unwavering support for Palestine's freedom struggle and for the decision to recall South African diplomatic staff from Tel Aviv. Al Jama- ah calls for an immediate, unconditional ceasefire. Thank you very much, hon House Chair.

Mr S ORMAHUMAPELO: Thank you very much, Chairperson. I also take this opportunity to greet the collective of hon members, the esteem ears and eyes of the people of South Africa and elsewhere. I thought that we need to start by just doing a succinct characterisation of the State of Israel. It is a consequence of war. It lives and survives on war. It is a settler, heartless, apartheid, immoral, genocidal vampire state.

The only political relevance of its Prime Minister, Netanyahu, is war. It perpetually quenches its test for war through the blood of the Palestinian people. Like a vampire, its primary prey is the people of Palestine. It respects no rules of international governance. It has no ear to listen to Israeli voices that say, 'Not in our name!'. It has no brain to comprehend truth that no force can defeat a just cause of the people.

The genesis of its stupendous superiority is parented by the UK and the US, at all. It lacks the necessary political consciousness to realise the danger it poses to a correct proposal for the two- states solution. It has no ear and emotions to listen to the painful voices of dying children of Palestine. It has no comprehension that perpetual genocidal maiming, suffocation and annihilation of Palestinians will be met with perpetual, protracted and just struggle by the Palestinians to liberate themselves.

Let us just deal with some of the distortions: The war in Palestine did not start on the 7 October 2023 and the subsequent propagandist tirade of the so- called 'right to self - defence' by the State of Israel. We do not condone violence, but a question might be posed: What right of self- defence do you have, when you arrive in a place of not your own, take what does not belong to you by force, while any enquiry or resistance to your immorally. Illegal and insane act is met with declaration of death of innocent people? Among the many onslaughts that the Palestinian people had to face was in 1917-18, when the British used force to colonise Palestine under the command of General Allenby. The British notoriety in 1820 was extended to South Africa upon their arrival here in Cape Town, in Table Bay. By fire by force, the State of Israel was declared in 1948, the same year when the National Party was formed and immediately started the apartheid system here in South Africa.