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IW.621.VIKING BOER – ISRAEL WATCH – Genocide Claims by South Africa
Israel-Hamas war update: Israel responds to genocide claims by South Africa | LiveNOW from FOXJan 12, 2024
Accused of committing genocide against Palestinians, Israel insisted at the United Nations’ highest court Friday that its war in Gaza was a legitimate defense of its people and that it was Hamas militants who were guilty of genocide.
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Israel’s Oral Argument: South Africa v. Israel at UN Int’l Court of Justice Public HearingsJan 12, 2024
This video is available in multiple languages. Click the settings ⚙️ button to change the language track.The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, held public hearings on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by South Africa in the case South Africa v. Israel on 11 and 12 January 2024, at the Peace Palace in The Hague, the seat of the Court. Session held under the presidency of Judge Joan E. Donoghue, President of the Court.
On the second and final day of preliminary hearings at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel’s legal team insisted that the Court “lacks prima facie jurisdiction” in the matter, and the subject of the proceedings “do not fall within the remit of the Genocide Convention.”
Addressing the Court in The Hague today (12 Jan) Israel’s Deputy Attorney-General for International Relations, Gilad Noam, said South Africa “has not shown any dispute between itself and the respondent at the time the application was submitted. Indeed, it tried to mislead the court into believing that one had existed.”
Noting that Israel’s twin military objectives were to eradicate the existential threat posed by Hamas militants and to free some 136 hostages still held in the war-shattered enclave, Noam said, “the simple reality is that the events which are the subject of these proceedings are occurring in the framework of a war instigated by Hamas.”
He told judges in The Hague that “the standard of irreparable harm and urgency is not met either,” as Israel “is constantly taking concrete steps, together with others, to address the humanitarian situation in Gaza.”
Finally, he said, provisional measures sought by South Africa “are unwarranted and prejudicial,” as they portray “an image of Israel as a lawless state that regards itself as beyond and above the law.”
Noam said, “the applicant paints an image of Israel as a state in which the entire public service, military and society have, in concert, discarded Israel’s long-standing commitment to law and morality and become singularly consumed with destroying an entire population. That is patently false.”
When a State is attacked, it has the right to defend itself and its citizens, Israel’s legal team insisted, before underscoring the deep trauma resulting from the 7 October terror attacks by Hamas and other Palestinian militants who rampaged across southern Israel, slaughtering some 1,200 people and taking around 250 captive.
Noam said, “the conflict with Hamas poses serious operational and legal challenges in conducting close-quarter urban combat, while mitigating harm to the surroundings; in seeking to put a stop to Hamas military use of hospitals while minimising disruption of medical services; in helping civilians leave areas of the most intense fighting, while Hamas forces them to stay in the line of fire; in facilitating the provision of aid, when that aid is constantly stolen by Hamas to sustain its military efforts; in balancing humanitarian considerations with the need to act forcefully against an adversary that still fire rockets deep into our country and holds our citizens hostage.”
He said, “the rule of law remains a foundational pillar of the State of Israel. The applicant defames not only Israel’s leadership but also Israeli society, misrepresented in a selective assortment of statements to suggest genocidal intentions and the abdication of core moral values.”
Provisional measures, Noam insisted, “would lead to a perverse situation. It would effectively allow Hamas to continue attacking the citizens of Israel, to hold 136 hostages in unbearable conditions, to keep tens of thousands of displaced Israelis from returning to their homes, and essentially to promote its plan to massacre as many Israelis and Jews as it can.”
As part of its claim against Israel, South Africa alleges that 6,000 bombs hit Gaza in the first week of the Israeli response to the Hamas-led attacks. This included, South Africa alleges, the use of 2,000-pound bombs at least 200 times in southern areas of the Strip that were designated as safe, and in the north, where refugee camps were located.
Now that initial representations from both South Africa and Israel have concluded at the ICJ, one of the justices’ first tasks is to assess whether there are sufficient grounds to approve the South African application for provisional measures against Israel, to “protect against further, severe and irreparable harm to the rights of the Palestinian people under the Genocide Convention”
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The case against Israel and what could mean for the war on Gaza | The Listening PostJan 13, 2024 #Aljazeeraenglish #Israel #SouthAfrica
With the International Court of Justice deliberating over South Africa’s genocide case against Israel, we look at how the proceedings could affect reporting on the war.
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What will be the outcome of the ICJ case against Israel?Jan 13, 2024 #IsraelDefence #SelfDefenceArgument #Interna
A two-day public hearing of South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice has concluded.
South Africa laid out a list of genocidal acts by Israel on the first day of hearing on Thursday – while Israel defended itself on Friday.
Now, the court has begun deliberations.
It will decide whether South Africa’s case is strong enough to issue a provisional measure to stop the Israeli military’s attacks on Gaza.
So, what’s the likely outcome of this case?
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South Africa levels accusations of ‘genocidal conduct’ against Israel at UN Int’l Court of JusticeJan 11, 2024
This video is available in multiple languages. Click the settings ⚙️ button to change the language track.The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, held public hearings on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by South Africa in the case South Africa v. Israel on 11 and 12 January 2024, at the Peace Palace in The Hague, the seat of the Court. Session held under the presidency of Judge Joan E. Donoghue, President of the Court.
South Africa addressed the UN’s highest court on Thursday in a bid to end the mass killing of civilians in Gaza, accusing Israel of carrying out genocide against Palestinians there – a claim that Israel has strongly denied as “baseless”.
The development came amid the ongoing and massive Israeli bombardment across the Gaza Strip in response to Hamas-led terror attacks on 7 October that left some 1,200 Israeli and foreign nationals dead in southern Israel and some 250 taken hostage.
Laying out their case, the South African legal team told the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague that Israel had demonstrated a “pattern of genocidal conduct” since launching its full-scale war in Gaza, the 365 square kilometre strip of land it has occupied since 1967.
“This killing is nothing short of destruction of Palestinian life. It is inflicted deliberately, no-one is spared, not even newborn babies,” the court heard.
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