ANC's spokesperson Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri said according to Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, Israel is a blatant apartheid state that methodically imposes privilege on Jewish Israelis' behalf and discriminates against Palestinians.

In pursuit of this goal, Israeli authorities have dispossessed, confined, forcibly separated and subjugated Palestinians by their identity to varying degrees of intensity," Bhengu-Motsiri said.

Bhengu-Motsiri furthermore alluded the ANC stands with the people of occupied Palestine as it is clear the degenerating security situation is directly linked to the unlawful Israeli occupation.

"Israel’s policy of settling its civilians in occupied Palestinian territory and displacing the local population contravenes fundamental rules of international humanitarian law and the Fourth Geneva Convention states: ‘The occupying power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies," Bhengu-Motsiri added.

Meanwhile Israel's military says it has retaken control of all communities around Gaza, more than 48 hours after Hamas launched a surprise assault in which more than 700 people were killed as Israel's Minister of Defense also said he has ordered the complete siege of Gaza, cutting off electricity, food, fuel and water to the enclave.