Post by soulflower on Dec 29, 2023 13:11:05 GMT -5
South Africa launches case at UN’s top court accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza
This is not a hard one. It's just a question of whether International Law actually exists or is International Law just symbolic.
SOUTH Africa has launched a case at the UN’s top court accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza.
It comes as tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians have streamed into the overwhelmed town of Rafah in the southernmost end of Gaza in recent days.
The UN has said Israeli forces have continued their offensive in the centre, killing dozens of people.
South Africa filed an application on Friday to institute proceedings against Israel before the court, concerning "alleged violations by Israel in its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in relation to Palestinians in the Gaza strip".
Established in 1945, and based in The Hague in the Netherlands, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) – informally known as the "World Court" – settles legal disputes between States and gives advisory opinions on legal questions that have been referred to it by other authorized UN organs.
Israel’s unprecedented air and ground offensive against Hamas has displaced some 85% of the Gaza Strip’s 2.3 million residents, leading to swells of people seeking shelter in Israeli-designated safe areas that the military has nevertheless also bombed.
That has left Palestinians with a harrowing sense that nowhere is safe in the tiny enclave.
Israel’s widening campaign, which has already flattened much of northern Gaza, is now focused on built-up areas in central Gaza, where Israeli warplanes and artillery pounded the urban refugee camps of Bureij, Nuseirat and Maghazi, levelling buildings, residents said.
It comes as tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians have streamed into the overwhelmed town of Rafah in the southernmost end of Gaza in recent days.
The UN has said Israeli forces have continued their offensive in the centre, killing dozens of people.
South Africa filed an application on Friday to institute proceedings against Israel before the court, concerning "alleged violations by Israel in its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in relation to Palestinians in the Gaza strip".
Established in 1945, and based in The Hague in the Netherlands, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) – informally known as the "World Court" – settles legal disputes between States and gives advisory opinions on legal questions that have been referred to it by other authorized UN organs.
Israel’s unprecedented air and ground offensive against Hamas has displaced some 85% of the Gaza Strip’s 2.3 million residents, leading to swells of people seeking shelter in Israeli-designated safe areas that the military has nevertheless also bombed.
That has left Palestinians with a harrowing sense that nowhere is safe in the tiny enclave.
Israel’s widening campaign, which has already flattened much of northern Gaza, is now focused on built-up areas in central Gaza, where Israeli warplanes and artillery pounded the urban refugee camps of Bureij, Nuseirat and Maghazi, levelling buildings, residents said.
This is not a hard one. It's just a question of whether International Law actually exists or is International Law just symbolic.