South Africa Delivers 750 Pages of Evidence of Israeli Genocide to International Court of Justice
South
Africa has submitted its Memorial -- the name of the document recording
its main case against Israel -- to the International Court of Justice
(ICJ), the UN's highest court, to supplement its genocide allegations
against Israel which, in over 750 pages, provides evidence supported by
exhibits and annexes of over 4,000 pages. South Africa says its
Memorial contains evidence that Israel has violated the Genocide
Convention in its ongoing military offensive in the Gaza Strip which
has killed over 43,000 Palestinians.
A statement issued by South Africa's Presidency declared: "The evidence will show that undergirding Israel's genocidal acts is the special intent to commit genocide, a failure by Israel to prevent incitement to genocide, to prevent genocide itself and its failure to punish those inciting and committing acts of genocide [...]
"Israel has been granted unprecedented impunity to breach international law and norms for as long as the UN Charter has been in existence," the statement stressed, adding that "Israel's continued shredding of international law has imperiled the institutions of global governance that were established to hold all states accountable. [...]
"The international community cannot stand idly by while innocent civilians –- including women, children, hospital workers, humanitarian aid workers and journalists, are killed for simply being. That is a world we cannot accept," the Presidency stressed.
The statement issued by South Africa's Presidency explains that "In accordance with the Rules of Court, the Memorial may not be made public. The filing of this memorial takes place at a time when Israel is intensifying the killing of civilians in Gaza and now seems intent to follow a similar path of destruction in Lebanon."
The Memorial contains evidence which shows how the government of Israel "has violated the genocide convention by promoting the destruction of Palestinians living in Gaza, physically killing them with an assortment of destructive weapons, depriving them access to humanitarian assistance, causing conditions of life which are aimed at their physical destruction and ignoring and defying several provisional measures of the International Court of Justice, and using starvation as a weapon of war and to further Israel's aims to depopulate Gaza through mass death and forced displacement of Palestinians."
At least 13 countries have joined South Africa's case at the ICJ, including Belgium, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Egypt, Libya, Mexico, Maldives, Nicaragua, Spain, and Türkiye.
(Palestine Chronicle, Al Jazeera)
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Wednesday, October 30, 2024
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