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South Africa acting as Hamas’s legal arm, Israel says after ICJ hearing
January 11, 2024

The Israel Foreign Ministry accused South Africa on Thursday of acting as the “legal arm of the Hamas terrorist organization,” as two days of preliminary hearings kicked off at the U.N.’s top court in The Hague. “Today, we were witness to one of the greatest shows of hypocrisy in history, compounded by a series of false and baseless claims,” Foreign Ministry Spokesman Lior Haiat said in a statement shared on X…The Israeli rebuke came after lawyers for South Africa demanded that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) order an immediate end to the Israel Defense Forces’ operation against Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip. “Israel has transgressed article two of the [Genocide] Convention, committing acts that fall within the definition of genocide…READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL ‘We should be worried’: Israel faces peril at The Hague in Gaza ‘genocide’ case  Although the idea that Israel is committing genocide in the war in Gaza, meaning intentionally murdering Palestinian civilians, might seem outlandish to some, the allegations are extremely serious and even an interim ruling against Israel could have a severe impact on its international status and global reputation, with potentially dire diplomatic and political consequences. A ruling against Israel could even affect the ongoing conduct of the war against the Hamas terror group’s regime in Gaza. 

REALITY CHECK Here’s where it gets cleverly sinister: South Africa isn’t even trying to win – just bringing the case allows them to request an order for an emergency ceasefire. A ceasefire that would come into place while Israeli hostages are still in captivity and undergoing torture, while Hamas is still in power and saying they plan to carry out more massacres.