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Sa’ar says he’ll start work on filing genocide case against Iran at International Court of Justice
Jeremy Sharon Follow
January 28, 2024

Cabinet minister Gideon Sa’ar says he will begin working on having Israel file a case against Iran in the International Court of Justice on genocide charges, pointing out that Iranian leaders have called for Israel’s destruction and that Iran gives strong backing to Hamas and other Gaza terror groups that carried out the October 7 atrocities. Numerous experts in international law have said that the massacres and other crimes carried out by Hamas on October 7 likely constitute a genocidal act since they appear to have been aimed at destroying “in whole or in part” a national group, in this case Israelis. “There are public statements by senior Iranian officials in favor of destroying Israel,” Sa’ar tells the Kan public broadcaster. READ MORE