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The movement calling for the closure of the embassy handed with 248 votes in favour and 91 votes towards.
South Africa’s Parliament has voted in favour of a movement calling for the closure of Israel’s embassy in Pretoria amid hovering tensions between the 2 nations over the Israeli assault on Gaza.
The movement is essentially symbolic as it is going to be shall be as much as President Cyril Ramaphosa’s authorities whether or not to implement it.
The movement calling for the closure of the embassy handed on Tuesday with 248 votes in favour and 91 votes towards.
The movement launched by the leftwing opposition social gathering Financial Freedom Fighters (EFF) was backed by the ruling African Nationwide Congress and opposed by members of the centrist, white-majority Democratic Alliance (DA) which is essentially pro-Israel.
Ramaphosa has beforehand stated his nation believes Israel is committing conflict crimes and genocide within the besieged Gaza Strip, the place hundreds of Palestinians have been killed.
The vote comes after Israel introduced it was recalling its ambassador Eli Belotserkovsky from Pretoria “for consultations”.
The African nation has not had an envoy in Israel since 2018.
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