South Africa launched case towards Israel, saying the magnitude of dying and destruction in Gaza meets the edge of the 1948 Genocide Conference.
Israel will seem earlier than the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague to contest South Africa’s accusation that it’s committing genocide towards Palestinians in its struggle with Hamas, an Israeli authorities spokesman says.
South Africa launched the case towards Israel on Friday, saying the magnitude of dying, destruction and the extent of the humanitarian disaster within the Gaza Strip meets the edge of the 1948 Genocide Conference beneath worldwide regulation.
South Africa additionally requested the courtroom to order Israel to cease its assaults in Gaza.
A spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday accused South Africa of “giving political and legal cover” to the October 7 Hamas assaults on Israel, which triggered the three-month-long struggle.
“The state of Israel will appear before the International Court of Justice at The Hague to dispel South Africa’s absurd blood libel,” Eylon Levy stated.
“We assure South Africa’s leaders, history will judge you, and it will judge you without mercy,” Levy added.
The spokesperson stated Hamas was accountable for the struggle it began and was “waging from inside and underneath hospitals, schools, mosques, homes and UN facilities”.
For many years, South Africa has backed the Palestinian trigger for statehood. It has likened the remedy of Palestinians to these of the Black majority in South Africa in the course of the apartheid period, a comparability that Israel vehemently denies.
Clayson Monyela, a spokesperson for South Africa’s Division of Worldwide Relations and Cooperation, stated in a submit on X that legal professionals representing South Africa have been getting ready for the listening to scheduled for January 11 and 12.
The announcement comes as fierce combating continues in southern Gaza with Israeli forces bombarding the town of Khan Younis from the air and floor.
The Palestinian Crimson Crescent Society stated on Tuesday that Israeli forces hit its headquarters in Khan Younis, leading to a number of deaths and accidents among the many displaced individuals who had been sheltering there.
The Palestinian Ministry of Well being in Gaza stated on Tuesday that greater than 200 individuals had been killed in 24 hours, taking the dying toll from the Israeli assault on Gaza to greater than 22,000.