As we speak, hon members, indications are that more than

10 000 Palestinian people have been killed in 30 days. More than 70% of these people who are maimed are women, the elderly, the disabled, the sick and children. What is the sin of the Palestinians? Their only sin is to say that they must have their land without occupation. The genocidal apartheid state of Israel expects the Palestinian people to allow them to annex more and more land, restrict their movement, suppress their human rights and, rob and deny them of their dignity without any form of resistance.

Because of time, I will not mention the number of UN resolutions that the State of Israel has defied, from 1947 to the recent history. They also defied the two agreements that were made in Oslo, whilst they had participated in that particular process.

Let us talk about our friends on the left here, hon members who are collective of the 'moonshotists'. Your hypocrisy is exposed because I characterise you as political 'pendulumists'. Conveniently, you forgot that you called the ANC and its leader, President Nelson Mandela, a terrorist. You will not tell your friends in the apartheid state of Israel that today.

You will live side-by-side in relative peace with the people you call terrorists, monkeys, subhumans - people you maimed, killed and throttled. You took their land, their animals, their being and completely dehumanised us as black people.

Steenhuisen, I want to challenge you and your friends - hon Steenhuisen. As much as you were a populist and went to Ukraine, I challenge you to get into a flight and go to Gaza. Tell your Prime Minister Netanyahu on how the ANC and other progressive formations liberated you and your ancestors, despite the fact that as blacks were subject of apartheid colonial subjugation. Try and draw Prime Minister Netanyahu's attention to the reality and the truth that the collective apartheid onslaught of 342 years on black people, in South Africa, was resolved through peaceful negotiated settlement. Advise him that as a country, we rank among the best examples on political conflict resolution and working through the United Nations, we stand by a South Africa to assist.

Please tell him that we, as the ANC, declared in the Freedom Charter that all national groups shall have equal rights. As we speak here today, all national groups have got equal rights. He might listen to you because you are birds of the same feathers. Today, you seek to separate Nelson Mandela from the ANC and we have not succeeded.

Now, let me come to you, hon Meshoe, of the CDP. I want to quote from Deuteronomy. It says, 'Foreigners who live in your land will gradually gain more and more power, while you gradually lose yours'. This is what the apartheid state of Israel is doing to the Palestinian people.

You will never comment and thank the people of Palestine and the ANC for advocating tow-state solution, with Israel and Palestine living side-by-side in peace. You will never say this truth, you, hon members, on the left. Some of you are offsprings and permanent beneficiaries of the apartheid colonial brutality, whose consequence today is painfully reflected in a white minority of only 7% controlling and owning more than 90% of South Africa's economy.

You say you respect human rights, but you will not tell the US-backed Prime Minister Netanyahu that it is inhumane and genocidal to announce on TV that you will deny innocent people access to water, fuel, food, medication, free movement, prayer; and that you will destroy their hospitals, ambulances, schools, places of worship, and so on and so on.

On way forward, we suggest that: One, the United Nations-led immediate peace initiative must be implemented; two, the UN decisively act against the State of Israel, and as the Minister has said, the ICC must charge Prime Minister Netanyahu; three, the UN must enforce its own resolutions that have been defied by Israel; four, we applaud the President for recalling the ambassador, but in addition,