South Africa filed an application on 29 December to begin proceedings against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for alleged violations of the Genocide Convention and asked the ICJ to order measures to halt Israel’s actions that violate the convention amid its war on Gaza. In its application to the ICJ, the UN’s main judicial body, South Africa claimed that Israel’s acts are “genocidal in character,” arguing that they are designed to bring about the destruction of a substantial portion of the Palestinians, namely the Palestinians in Gaza. The ‘Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide’ defines the crime as certain acts, such as killing and causing serious bodily or mental harm, committed “with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.” The African state added that no attack on a state’s territory, no matter how serious, may justify violations of the Genocide Convention. “It is important to place the acts of genocide in the broader context of Israel’s conduct towards Palestinians during its 75-year-long apartheid, its 56-year-long belligerent occupation of Palestinian territory, and its 16-year-long blockade…
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