South Africa, along with Bangladesh, Bolivia, Comoros and Djibouti, submitted a referral to the ICC to investigate whether war crimes and crimes against humanity have been committed in Gaza.
Minister in the Presidency Khum-budzo Ntsha-vheni said if the ICC did not do this, it would signal a “total failure” of global governance.

The South African presidency also announced in a press release on Monday, that it will also chair an extraordinary virtual meeting of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) today Tuesday “on the situation in Gaza and the Middle East”, to which the Kremlin has confirmed that Russian President Vladimir Putin will participate.