#Gaza #ICJ #SouthAfrica [1/2]
with [2/2] following close behind.

It is [can be] absolutely boring reading about court proceedings. But I'm getting quite good at it.
Reading about the Trump trials, several #Ecoside trials and this one the #Genocide trial in the ICJ court against Israel. Brought there by South Africa; with a profound knowledge on #Apartheid.

"'Enough Is Enough': South Africa Urges ICJ to Halt Israeli Assault on Rafah"
by Julia Conley for Common Dreams
[incl. a 2:22;54 long YT video on the proceedings]

https://www.commondreams.org/news/icj-south-africa-rafah

Quotes:
"Israel's assault on Rafah provides "evidence of the crime of genocide," one legal expert said. "This attack is the final blow that is intended to destroy the Palestinian group in Gaza."

"The case for the ICJ to stop the attack on Rafah was made by a number of lawyers, legal experts, and ambassadors, with the South African representatives outlining the bare facts of Israel's military campaign, blocking of humanitarian aid, and statements of intent, just as they did when the court heard South Africa's original claim that Israel is committing genocide."

"in a preliminary ruling in which the court said South Africa had made a "plausible" case and ordered Israel to prevent genocidal acts by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
On Thursday, South Africa urged the ICJ to see that Israel has not followed that order."

"The South Africans made their case as the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said Thursday that an estimated 600,000 people have now been forcibly displaced from Rafah by Israel.
Despite tepid warnings from the U.S.—the biggest international funder of the IDF—for Israel to avoid attacking "population centers," the IDF this week has moved into dense residential neighborhoods in central Rafah."

"Three months after giving a 22-minute speech detailing the numerous statements of genocidal intent made by top Israeli officials since the Gaza assault began in October, South African lawyer Tembeka Ngcukaitobi during Thursday's hearing, used the more recent words of Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who publicly described the aim of the Rafah invasion as "total annihilation."