Pretoria recalled its ambassador to Tel Aviv, Sisa Ngombane, in May 2018, after 15 Palestinians were killed in one day during the Gaza border protests. Three years later, with more than 200 fatalities since last week and warnings of civil war, the government maintains downgraded diplomatic ties with Israel but has edged closer to branding it an apartheid state.
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