South Africa to sue the United States and the United Kingdom for their involvement in Israel's war crimes in Gaza

The program led by South African lawyer Wikus Van Rensburg aims to prosecute those responsible for the crime in civil courts in collaboration with lawyers from the United States and England with whom he is already in contact. Rensburg, who has been writing letters to various countries and to the ICJ court for the past few weeks to demand that Israel and its supporters be prosecuted, has begun preparations to present a case in court against the two Western countries, supported by his fellow lawyers. "The United States must now be held accountable for the crimes it committed," Rensburg told Anadolu news agency in an exclusive interview, describing the process that will be implemented to prosecute Washington and London as accomplices in Tel Aviv's war crimes against the people of Gaza. Protesters in the United States calling on their government to stop funding Israel in the Gaza war Rensburg said, when he told the people around him about filing a lawsuit, he got a lot of support. "Many lawyers decided to join us in the case. Most of those who joined us are Muslims, but I am not a Muslim. They feel they have an obligation to help this matter, and I believe what is being done is wrong." According to the lawyer, what happened in Iraq is an example of the current incident in Gaza, and he explained that no one held the United States accountable for the crimes it committed in that Middle Eastern country because the issue was not given the necessary importance. But now, Rensburg said people believe what is happening in Palestine is the perfect environment for the legal process to be implemented, and added that "the United States is busy spending more money and more resources (to allow Israel) to commit crimes." The South African lawyer has said: "No one is saying stop, enough is enough," In addition, Rensburg has said that the case of genocide presented by South Africa against Israel in the ICJ court will be a guideline for their case against the United States and the United Kingdom, and that they will start the process based on the results of the case and the steps that will be taken by the Union court. of the Gentiles. Last week, a group of lawyers, whose number has now reached 47, wrote an open letter to the leaders of the American and British governments, explaining that they cannot avoid responsibility for the genocide committed by Israel against the Palestinians in Gaza.