South Africa on Friday (Jan 26) said it is hoping that Israel will comply with the World Court’s order that Israel must take steps to prevent acts of genocide and waging the war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
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00:00 Iwasawa, Nolte, Charlesworth, Brandt, Jadjad Haq, Moseneke, against.
00:07 Israel must, in accordance with its obligations under the Genocide Convention, in relation
00:12 to Palestinians in Gaza, take all measures within its power to prevent the commission
00:18 of all acts within the scope of Article 2 of the Convention.
00:22 The Court indicates the following conservative measures. 1. By one right against two. The State of Israel must, in accordance with its obligations, take all measures.
00:32 I have no way that I'm going to say I'm disappointed. I hoped for it, but the fact of delivering
00:39 humanitarian aid, the fact of taking measures that reduce the levels of harm against persons
00:46 who have no role in what Israel is combating, for me requires a ceasefire. And I believe
00:54 Israel would have to attend to how it conducts its search for the hostages and for those
01:01 Hamas individuals who carried out the October 7th attack.
01:06 I believe that in exercising the order, there would have to be a ceasefire. Without it,
01:16 the order doesn't actually work.
01:18 I've never really been hopeful about Israel, but Israel has very powerful friends who I
01:25 hope will advise Israel that they should act.
01:28 Even though the Court did not explicitly pronounce itself on cease and desist, but
01:46 it did mention that Israel must cease killing the people of Palestine.
01:52 And today we have basically taken the first step to end the violence that is meted out
01:59 against the innocent Palestinian people and the acts of genocide committed by Israel.
02:05 And therefore we are extremely elated and happy about the judgment today.
02:09 Israel's commitment to international law is unwavering. Equally unwavering is our sacred
02:18 commitment to continue to defend our country and defend our people.
02:22 Like every country, Israel has an inherent right to defend itself.
02:27 The vile attempt to deny Israel this fundamental right is blatant discrimination against the
02:32 Jewish state and it was justly rejected.
02:35 The charge of genocide leveled against Israel is not only false, it's outrageous and decent
02:42 people everywhere should reject it.
02:44 We will continue to facilitate humanitarian assistance and to do our utmost to keep civilians
02:49 out of harm's way, even as Hamas uses civilians as human shields.
02:54 We will continue to do what is necessary to defend our country and defend our people.
02:59 [End of Audio]
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