Notices tagged with southafrica, page 5

Opening remarks for South Africa:

This did not start on 7 October.

"No armed attack, no matter how serious ... can justify breaching of the [Genocide] convention" as Israel is doing now.

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South Africa begins to present its case.

Starts out with recognizing the Nakba of 1948 and Israel's discriminatory policies that subject the people of Palestine to Apartheid and inhumane treatment.

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South Africa: the first genocidal act of "israel" is the mass killing of people in Palestine. As of today, at least 23.210 people have been murdered, with ca. 7.000 Palestinians still missing, presumed dead. 40% of these are estimated to be children.

"israel" drops bombs on civilian locations designated at 'safe'.

There is no place safe in Gaza.

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South Africa: the second genocidal act is inflicting serious bodily and mental harm on Palestinians. Around 60.000 people in Palestine have been wounded or maimed, the vast majority of these being children, elderly, and women.

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South Africa: fourth genocidal act is "israel"'s assault on Palestinian health infrastructure.

Special concern about violence committed against women, pregnant people and newborn children. Some of this violence can be classified as preventing Palestinian births.

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South Africa: "israel" imposes hunger and dehydration on people in Palestine.

93% of the population in Gaza is facing crisis levels of hunger.

More people are expected to die in Palestine from starvation and disease than from bombing.

Hospitals have been bombed. Humanitarian aid is blocked.

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South Africa: third genocidal act is to make conditions of life in Gaza impossible. "isreal" leaves nowhere safe.

"israel"'s evacuation order to about 1 million Palestinian people *itself* was genocidal, argues South Africa

Houses and infrastructure have been razed to the ground, leaving people nowhere to return to.

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Quotes dehumanizing language used by "israeli" officials to refer to the people of Palestine, who call for Gaza to be razed to the ground and Palestinians to be deprived of water, electricity, and food.

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South Africa: "israel" has clear genocidal intent. Points to patterns of destruction of homes, infrastructure. Every 1 in 4 Palestinians have been injured over the past months.

"israel"'s politicians, military and other prominent ppl have publicly expressed their genocidal intent.

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South Africa points to the pattern of genocidal acts committed by "israel".

They state that the case against "israel" is even clearer than the case brought to the #ICJ of The Gambia against Myanmar, where the court was also prepared to take provisional measures to prevent genocide.

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South Africa cites an "israeli" official and members of the Knesset who call for random murder, for 'erasing' the Palestinian people, as well as erasing all and any memory of Palestine.

Side remark: This is why we shouldn't shut up about the Nakba, why everyone should keep calling attention to the rights of people of Palestine until it has been completely liberated from oppression and they can live in their land in freedom and dignity.

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South Africa points out that the language used by "israel" is not ambiguous. Shows clips that demonstrate that soldiers understood the language to be calls for genocide of the Palestinian people, calls for 'erasing Gaza'.

"israeli" soldiers make and distribute snuff videos of themselves blowing up entire neighbourhoods.

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Some of the language used by the zionist occupiers is too sickening for me to requote, but you can read the evidence here, in South Africa's application to the ICJ: https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20231229-pre-01-00-en.pdf

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South Africa now addresses the question of jurisdiction --- that is, whether this court can rule on this case between these parties

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South Africa points out: "israel" bombs hospitals. It targets aid workers. It murders journalists. It's systematically destroying infrastructure necessary for survival: water works, solar panels, crops, mills, bakeries.

It's because of "israel" that Gaza is a place of death and despair.

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Hearing resumes. South Africa continues making its case, describing the rights that South Africa seeks to preserve in Gaza

Says that what is happenings now is NOT a conflict between two parties. It's an occupying power oppressing and committing genocidal acts against Palestinians. Points out that the oppression has been going on for over 75 years.

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Protests in support of Palestine outside the International Court of Justice in the Hague, live broadcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnfGTVMRzHs

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South Africa quotes its president, Cyril Ramaphosa, expressing their abhorrence at:

"... what is happening in Gaza, which has now turned into a concentration camp, where genocide is taking place".

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In making its case, South Africa repeatedly refers the court to its ruling in a case of The Gambia against Myanmar on genocide, which you can find here: https://icj-cij.org/case/178

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Points out that it's not the court's task at this point to determine whether *actual* genocide is taking place, or whether it's the *only* possible explanation of what is happening.

The bar for demonstrating genocidal intent is lower.

The point here is to stop the occupying force from carrying out whatever it's doing, to prevent (any additional) genocide taking place

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