Thursday, January 4, 2024

Top UN court to consider genocide case against Israel over Gaza war next week

from Press TV

Judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague will hear a case on Israel’s “genocidal” acts in the besieged Gaza Strip next week, as a horrible nightmare of bloodshed in the Palestinian territory is unfolding due to the occupying regime’s incessant bombing.

South Africa, in an 84-page suit filed against Israel at the ICJ on December 29, asked the top court to urgently declare that the Tel Aviv regime has breached its responsibilities under international law since October 7, when it launched an ongoing war on the densely-populated coastal sliver.

Pretoria detailed evidence of brutality being perpetrated in Gaza, making South African the first country to file a lawsuit against Israel at the United Nations’ top court.

The ICJ “will hold public hearings at the Peace Palace in The Hague... in proceedings instituted by South Africa against Israel,” on January 11 and 12, the court said in a statement on Wednesday...

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1 comment:

  1. How above and beyond GDF pathetic is this when it's taken these 2 countries only, out of the blue to do something finally after near 3 months?
    Not one of the 'major powers' of course.
    So while we wait on next week, or till at least a few countries somewhere pull their heads out of the sand or out of their asses, and bravely issue some kind of 'joint statement' or warning publicly, may as well post some trivial titillation:

    Dozens more Jeffrey Epstein documents are now public. Here’s what we know so far
    https://apnews.com/article/jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine-maxwell-virginia-giuffre-3af500d4788ad45301be426628846d71?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

    "Da plane, boss, da plane" indeed:
    https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/tFXozuubURDnBXY4IOUwzSLQWT2.jpg

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