Namibia condemns Germany for supporting Israel in genocide case

Namibia condemned Germany's decision to reject South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice. 

Namibia, a southern African country where the first genocide of the 20th century took place under German colonial rule, took to Twitter to release a statement condemning Berlin's actions late on Saturday. 

"Germany cannot morally express commitment to the United Nations Convention against genocide, including atonement for the genocide in Namibia, whilst supporting the equivalent of a holocaust and genocide in Gaza," Namibia said in a statement. 

“No peace-loving human being can ignore the carnage waged against Palestinians in Gaza.”

Germany was responsible for the massacres of more than 70,000 Indigenous Herero and Nama people in Namibia between 1904 and 1908, which historians widely consider the first genocide of the 20th century.