️’It makes a mockery of the heinous charge of genocide.’
Gilad Noam, Israel's Deputy Attorney General for International Law, has accused South Africa of having ‘ulterior motives’ for urging an Israeli withdrawal from Rafah during court proceedings at the ICJ.
#icj #internationalcourtofjustice #israel #gaza #southafrica #rafah
Gilad Noam, Israel's Deputy Attorney General for International Law, has accused South Africa of having ‘ulterior motives’ for urging an Israeli withdrawal from Rafah during court proceedings at the ICJ.
#icj #internationalcourtofjustice #israel #gaza #southafrica #rafah
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00:00 This case, even by its very name, the application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment
00:07 of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip, suggests an inversion of reality.
00:16 It has given rise to South Africa's egregious and repeated efforts to bring Israel before
00:23 this Court through the obscene exploitation of the most sacred Convention.
00:32 South Africa presents the Court yet again for the first time within the scope of less
00:38 than five months with a picture that is completely divorced from the facts and circumstances.
00:48 Israel is engaged in a difficult and tragic armed conflict.
00:53 South Africa ignores this factual context, which is essential in order to comprehend
00:59 the situation, and also ignores the applicable legal framework of international humanitarian
01:07 law.
01:08 It makes a mockery of the heinous charge of genocide.