This week, in a case that captured the world’s attention, South Africa and Israel faced off at the International Court of Justice. Sunday Times legal correspondent Franny Rabkin, who attended the proceedings, dissects the issues.
The attack by the Palestinian military wing Hamas on October 7 2023 was the “largest calculated mass murder of Jews in a single day since the Holocaust”, the International Court of Justice heard on Friday.
“Genocide can never be justified in any circumstances,” Vaughan Lowe KC said at the International Court of Justice on Thursday, on behalf of SA in its genocide case against Israel.
The attack by the Palestinian military wing Hamas on October 7 2023 was the “largest calculated mass murder of Jews in a single day since the Holocaust”, the International Court of Justice heard on Friday.