(Reuters) -The U.N. aid chief on Friday said he was "deeply alarmed" by Israeli ministers' statements about "plans to encourage the mass transfer" of Palestinian civilians from the Gaza Strip to third countries and he called anew for a ceasefire. "Unless we act, it will become an indelible mark on our humanity," Martin Griffiths, the U.N. undersecretary for humanitarian affairs, told the U.N. Security Council. Griffiths painted a dire picture of a worsening humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza S
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This week, the International Court of Justice will begin hearing the application taken by the Republic of South Africa against Israel to investigate breaches of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. In a letter to the International Court of Justice signed by MEP Grace O’Sullivan, the Green MEP for Cork expressed support for the South African application and called for measures to be immediately put in place “to prevent and to punish genocide”.
South Africa is asking the International Court of Justice to declare that in its war against Gaza, Israel has breached its obligations under the Genocide Convention.
An Israeli judge who survived the Holocaust has been sent to represent his country in a UN court against claims it is committing genocide against Palestinians in the war in Gaza.