South Africa files case at ICJ accusing Israel of ‘genocidal acts’ in Gaza

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We repost Al Jazeera’s report on the case South Africa has filed against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing it of crimes of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

You can read the ICJ press release about the case here. You can download the full legal 84-page application here.

Welcomed by the Palestinian ministry of foreign affairs, Israel said it rejected “with contempt the blood libel by South Africa”.

It is followed by a comment by Craig Murray written some weeks earlier, after attending a session called by Palestine at the United Nations in Geneva.

He asked delegates why the Genocide Convention has not been activated triggering a reference to the International Court of Justice which he says everybody was quite sure would succeed.

The reason he offers is that not only would Netanyahu and hundreds of senior Israeli officials and military personally be liable, but so too would “Genocide Joe” Biden, Sunak and many members of their administrations.

It now been triggered. We shall see…

RK

This article was originally published by Al Jazeera on Fri 29 Dec 2023. Read the original here.