South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor said that the United Nations does not have the ability to impose peace, stressing that if it had, Palestinian lives would have been saved.

The minister's words came in a speech yesterday, Wednesday, during a solidarity event with Palestine organized by the ruling African National Congress party in South Africa, in which she called for urgent reform of the United Nations, "which is no longer effective enough to guarantee security and stability in the world, especially Palestine."

Pandor pointed out that the United Nations must go beyond monitoring peace and have the ability to impose peace. She added, "If it had that, the ability to impose peace would exist on the ground today and lives would have been saved in Palestine."

The Minister reiterated her emphasis on the need for powerful countries, with large armies that supply Israel with weapons, to send their soldiers to the Rafah border to ensure the transportation of aid loaded on 700 trucks to Gaza.

Yesterday, Wednesday, South Africa called on the International Court of Justice to take additional emergency measures against the Israeli army in light of its ongoing war on the Gaza Strip, which has entered its sixth month.

South Africa urged the International Court of Justice to order new measures without holding a hearing “in light of the extremely urgent situation,” adding that there was “a need for further measures to ensure the safety and security of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza.”

South Africa had submitted a request to the International Court of Justice to file a lawsuit against Israel against the backdrop of its violations in its war on the Gaza Strip, accusing it of “genocide of a people and violating the United Nations Charter against genocide" according to what the court announced on December 29 of last year.

Last week, South Africa's ambassador to the Netherlands, Vusimuzi Madonsela, appealed to all countries to testify in the case his country filed before the International Court of Justice in order to punish Israel for the crime of genocide in Gaza.

On February 19, hearings began at the International Court of Justice that continued until the 26th of the same month, with the participation of more than 50 countries, during which arguments were presented regarding Israeli practices in the occupied Palestinian territories.

(Anatolia, Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed)