South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor said her country will submit its memorandum accusing Israel of genocide to the International Court of Justice, as part of previous rounds related to Israel's war on the Gaza Strip, which has been ongoing for 388 days.

Pandor explained that the memorandum includes more evidence and details to show that what is happening in Gaza is "genocide indeed," following demands from her country for the court in The Hague to take new measures under the Genocide Convention, ordering Israel to stop the war in the Gaza Strip and withdraw its army from the Strip and from the Rafah crossing.

Last September, the South African presidency said it would submit a memorandum to the International Court of Justice documented with facts and evidence proving that Israel committed the crime of genocide in Palestine.

In mid-May, South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor said that what is happening in Palestine is apartheid, stressing that her country wants to apply the Genocide Convention to Israel regarding its behavior against the Palestinians.

The Minister reiterated her emphasis on moving forward with the case filed against Israel before the International Court of Justice, because the massacres committed by Israeli forces are a reality before the entire world, she said.

The court had set the 28th of this month as the deadline for South Africa to submit its opinion in the case, in addition to setting the deadline for Israel to submit its opposing view on July 28, 2025.

On December 29, South Africa submitted a request to the court to impose restrictive measures on Israel due to the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip. The sessions began on January 11 and 12 of this year with pleadings from both parties.

South Africa filed its complaint accusing Israel of violating the 1948 UN Genocide Convention in its attack on the Gaza Strip, and was later joined by several countries, including Colombia, Libya and Turkey.

Earlier, Axios reported that Israel had pressured members of the US Congress to pressure South Africa to drop its legal action at the International Court of Justice over the war in the Gaza Strip.

This comes as Israel continues its war on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, leaving more than 143,500 martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and worsening famine looming over the besieged Strip.