ICJ to deliver judgment in SA-Israel case on Friday
The International Court of Justice will deliver its ruling on the South Africa-Israel case in the Hague on Friday. South Africa dragged Israel to the World Court, accusing it of committing genocide in Gaza. Israel has rejected the accusations, saying it has a right to defend itself against Hamas. The Palestinian organisation orchestrated the 7 October incursion where 1 200 people died. Israel has since retaliated and almost 26 000 people have died in Gaza.
South Africa’s legal team has requested the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to order Israel to stop its military operation in Gaza. Scores of Palestinians have died since Israel declared war against Hamas. Pretoria also insists that Israel, as a signatory of the 1948 Genocide Convention, must take reasonable measures to prevent genocide in accordance with its obligations under the convention on prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide, in relation to the Palestinian people.
“Under the Genocide Convention, nothing justifies genocidal acts currently committed by Israel. So, defence is no answer to genocide. Nothing can ever justify genocide. There’s no balancing exercise as Israel has sought to suggest. The prohibition is absolute. It’s a primary rule of law, no matter what some individual within the group of Palestine in Gaza may have done and no matter how great the threats to Israel’s citizens might be, genocidal attacks on the whole of Gaza and the whole of this population with the intent of destroying them cannot be justified at all,” said Minister of Justice and Correctional Services Ronald Lamola.
Source: SABC
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