Herald Sun/27.1 2024 Justin Vallejo and Adella Beaini
Its very hard to understand why the Court did not call for an immediate ceasefire but well done South Africa for being the voice of the silent majority – Mark
The International Court of Justice delivered its landmark ruling on the emergency measures requested by South Africa in its genocide case against Israel over its war on the Gaza Strip.
Israel vowed to fight until “total victory” against Hamas after the International Court of Justice did not call for a ceasefire in Gaza despite finding a “plausible” risk of genocide.
No side backed down after the United Nations court in The Hague ordered Israel to take measures to prevent potential acts of genocide, while stopping short of demanding an immediate end to the four-month counteroffensive in Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the UN as “outrageous” and said they would continue the “just war” against “Hamas monsters who murdered, raped, beheaded and kidnapped” hundreds in its October 7 massacre.
South Africa had brought the case accusing Israel of breaching the 1948 UN Genocide Convention that was set up in the ashes of World War II and the Holocaust.
“At this stage, South Africa does not need to prove that Israel is committing genocide,” Juliette McIntyre, a lecturer in international law at the University of South Australia, told AFP before the ruling.
“They simply need to establish that there is a plausible risk of genocide occurring.”
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