Report: South African Leaders Hosted Hamas Delegation After Attack on Israel

By Yoni Weiss

South Africa’s Minister of Justice Ronald Lamola and members of the South African delegation address the media near the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday. (REUTERS/Thilo Schmuelgen)

According to a report in The Daily Mail, South African leaders met with Hamas terrorists during an official visit to their country in December, shortly after the deadly terrorist attack on Israel on Oct. 7.

Despite the chilly relations between Hamas and several other Middle Eastern Arab powers at the time, the Hamas delegation, led by Basem Naim, a leader in Hamas’s political office, and including Ali Al-Qaddumi, Hamas’s representative in Iran, toured the South African Parliament, met with African National Congress politicians, and held a press conference in memory of Nelson Mandela.

In a subsequent move, South Africa filed a lawsuit against Israel in the International Court of Justice, accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza, in a case held last week.

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