The South African government on Monday warned that South Africans who are serving in the IDF in Gaza could face prosecution at home.
The foreign ministry stated that it is “gravely concerned” by reports that South African citizens are fighting in Gaza.
“Such action can potentially contribute to the violation of international law and the commission of further international crimes, thus making them liable for prosecution in South Africa,” the ministry stated.
The ministry added that naturalized South African citizens could lose their citizenship for fighting in a war that Pretoria “does not support or agree with” and anyone who wishes to join the IDF must receive legal approval from the government.
“Any person joining the IDF without the necessary permission of the National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC) is breaking the law and can be prosecuted,” the ministry said.
Israel recalled its ambassador to South Africa back to Jerusalem last month after the government in Pretoria made a number of outrageous statements regarding the war in Gaza and a minister called for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s arrest for “war crimes.” South Africa recalled all its diplomats from Israel earlier in the month.
Over 11,000 South Africans live in Israel.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Wow breaking news…I also heard they found hunter bidens laptop
Well I guess South African Jews will be making Aliyah soon
When did South African blacks become so stupid
really…..looks like a story line….they are staying….
May he have a shvartze yohr. The Jewish South Africans were at the forefront fighting for equality. Meanwhile, they got their equality and ran this beautiful country, rich with resources into the ground. And then they choose to affiliate themselves with the world’s greatest rogues and barbarians.
South Africans who have moved to Israel generally have zero interest in ever moving back to South Africa – so threats to their South African citizenship is a bit of a joke.
an Israeli Yid
This is what happens when you end apartheid.
All the Gedolim hold that one is not allowed to fight in the zionist melting pot Esav army….
But for religious reasons…
…Not because they are proxies for Russia etc..
Many countries have laws prohibiting their citizens from serving in foreign militaries, including the United States. As long as one serves in an allied country’s army it usually is not a problem, though serving in a hostile country’s military does get prosecuted. Usually the punishment if any involves loss of citizenship.
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GD BLESS, NO Gedolim hold that one is not allowed to fight in the IDF. Not a single one. On the contrary, all gedolim hold that it’s a mitzvah, and that the IDF fallen are kedoshim and tzadikim; as R Shlomo Zalman Auerbach zt”l told a bochur who wanted to travel to kivrei tzadikim, you have no need to travel far, just to to the military cemetery at Har Herzl during the lunch break, daven there, and come back in time for seder.
That yeshiva bochurim who are seriously learning all day should not be drafted into the army is another topic. Just because IDF service is a mitzvah does not mean one should be mevatel torah for it. There are many mitzvos that a talmid chochom should leave for other people to do, and only put down the gemoro if there is nobody else who can do them.