Jakarta –
South Africa has filed a case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Israel over the “genocide” in Gaza. Responding to the lawsuit, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel had shown unprecedented “morality” in the Gaza war.
The request for a case at the International Court of Justice relates to Israel’s alleged violation of its obligations under the Genocide Convention, AFP reported on Sunday (31/12/2023), according to a statement. and stated that “Israel has been involved, is involved, and risks being further involved, in acts of genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza.”
In its appeal to The Hague, South Africa also said that Israel acted “with the necessary specific intent… to destroy the Palestinian people in Gaza as part of the broader Palestinian national, racial and ethnic group.”
Israel denies the accusations. Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lior Haiat wrote on the X social media account, before Twitter said that “Israel rejects with disgust the slander spread by South Africa and its application” to the International Court of Justice.
Israel denies South Africa’s accusations
Israel rejects South Africa’s accusations of committing acts of “genocide” in the Palestinian territories. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he will continue the war on the defensive.
“We will continue the defensive war, the justice and morality of which are unmatched,” Netanyahu said at a cabinet meeting in Tel Aviv, reported by AFP.
His comments came after South Africa launched a case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Israel on Friday.
“No, South Africa, it wasn’t us who committed the genocide, it was Hamas,” Netanyahu said.
“They would kill us all if they could. Instead, the IDF (Israeli army) acted in the most moral way possible,” Netanyahu said.
It is known that Israel has launched incessant military attacks against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The militant attacks left around 1,140 people dead, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli data.
Israel’s ongoing offensive on Gaza has killed more than 21,800 people, mostly women and children, according to the health ministry of Hamas-ruled Gaza.
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2023-12-31 14:20:30
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