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.
South Africa now addresses the question of jurisdiction --- that is, whether this court can rule on this case between these parties
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".
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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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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South Africa quotes a representative who says that, over their decades-long experience, they haven't seen any case as severe as what's happening in Gaza in terms of speed and scale
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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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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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South Africa continues to make its case, providing evidence of the risk of "irreperable harm" due to the occupier's actions in Palestine.
4 out of 5 people in the world who experience famine right now are based in Palestine.
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South Africa: Each day 1 in 10 Palestinian children will have a limb amputated, often without anaesthetic.
Each day houses are bombed, often killing entire families.
People end up in mass graves, graves which the occupying forces then demolish and exhume -- not even granting people dignity in death.
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"The situation could not be more urgent", says South Africa.
"israel" has already made Palestine particularly vulnerable due to its decade-long occupation. Now the occupier has brought Gaza to the brink of famine.
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If provisional measures were appropriate in the cases of Bosnia, Myanmar, and Ukraine, how could it not be applicable in Gaza? asks South Africa
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Protesters in support of Palestine outside the International Court of Justice in The Hague
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South Africa: the conditions for the effective delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza no longer exist.
Without a halt to "israel"'s operations, there is imminent risk to irreparable harm
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"It would be a complete departure of all of the court's jurisprudence not to grant provisional measures [to halt 'israeli' genocidal actions] in this case", says South Africa.
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"The first genocide in history where the victims are broadcasting their own destruction in real-time, in the hope that someone, somewhere will do something".
The international community has failed. The world should be absolutely horrified and ashamed.
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South Africa shows the court a sign from a hospital:
"Whoever stays until the end,
will tell the story
we did what we could
*remember us*"
Dated 20 October 2023. A few days later the author of the sign had been murdered, too.
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