Presenting South Africa’s case at the International Court of Justice that Israel is guilty of perpetrating genocide in violation of the 1948 Genocide Convention, South African High Court advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi explained how the Israel Defence Forces had called up Israel’s oldest army reservist and settler, the 95-year-old Ezra Yachin, to speak to soldiers in the run up to the ground invasion of Gaza that began on October 27.
Israel rejected the case as ‘baseless’, insisting that its forces are operating in Gaza according to law. To accuse any country of genocide is a serious
On Thursday, lawyers representing the government of South Africa gave an extraordinary presentation to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, arguing that Israel is guilty of perpetrating genocide in violation of the 1948 Genocide Convention.
As Irish lawyer Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh stated in her presentation, Gaza represents “the first genocide in history where its victims are broadcasting their own