2024-01-12 17:15:00
This Friday, Israel’s legal team appeared before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to respond to accusations made by South Africa that the Zionist State maintains a “pattern of genocidal conduct” in Gaza against the Palestinian population.
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South Africa accuses Israel before the ICJ for acts of genocide
Israel sat down with its lawyers to respond to the complaint, calling the accusations “false and unfounded.”
The day before, South Africa presented before the International Court of Justice a series of evidence that shows a systematic pattern of genocide in the Zionist aggression against the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip, manifest in “forced displacement”, “mass murders” and “language of systematic dehumanization” that Israel applies to the Palestinians.
Faced with reports that the Israeli war machine has bombed the civilians of Gaza for almost a hundred days, leaving more than 30,000 victims, including murdered and missing under the rubble, Israel’s legal team assured that from Tel Aviv “they will continue to protect its citizens and will do everything possible to stop Hamas.”
In this sense, the advisor to the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Tal Becker, stated that if there is a genocide in progress, it is the one carried out against the Israeli population and emphasized that its people are “defending themselves” from the attacks of Hamas, without mention that tens of thousands more civilians have died than members of the Palestinian resistance.
What has the genocide case against Israel to do with NATO aggression?
Former British ambassador Craig Murray (@CraigMurrayOrg ) explains in @teleSURtvinterview in The Hague, Netherlands: pic.twitter.com/pD45U5GgZ4— Yunus Soner (@yunussonerr)
January 12, 2024
To justify the Zionist war crimes in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, during the hearing before the ICJ, the Israeli legal group showed images of Operation Al-Aqsa Deluge, deployed in Palestinian territories occupied by Hamas and Islamic Jihad on December 7. October.
In its defense, Israel argued that South Africa has close ties to Hamas, which the Zionists believe undermines the credibility of their claims. The legal team even pointed out that the accusation is distorted and far from the reality of the conflict, in addition to daring that South Africa is a kind of vigilante arm of Hamas.
Likewise, they ruled out having any guilt in the initiative of the attacks, trying to trace the origin of the Al-Aqsa Flood to October 7 and not to the Zionist occupation of Palestine, which began in 1948. In their opinion, Hamas is “responsible for start the war with their attack” and from that definition they insisted that Tel Aviv makes use of its “legitimate right to defense.”
Regarding the siege and deliberate bombing of homes, schools, hospitals, places of worship, food production centers, water treatment plants and other civil structures in Gaza, even protected by the UN, Israel justified its actions because, according to Israeli intelligence, “ Hamas incorporated civilian areas into its military operations.”
Israel’s legal representatives have repeatedly referred to its actions in Gaza as acts of “self-defense.” At the end of the hearing, they decided not to hold a press conference.
While they were presenting their arguments, outside the ICJ, a crowd of people, despite the adverse weather and low temperatures, supported the Palestinian cause and demanded the prosecution of the Zionist entity for its war crimes in Gaza. In gratitude to South Africa, protesters then mobilized towards the African nation’s diplomatic headquarters in The Hague.
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