World Court sets date for South Africa V Israel over Hamas war

South Africa’s 84-page petition about Israel’s inability to supply the Gaza Strip with basic necessities like food, water, medicine, fuel, shelter, other humanitarian aid, and other war crimes will be decided on by the International Court of Justice on Friday.

The complaint, which was filed in late December, also accuses Israel of violating the 1948 Genocide Convention, to which both nations are parties, and would be heard by the World Court.

The South African government, in a statement on Wednesday evening, said, ” The International Court of Justice #ICJ will deliver its Order on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by South Africa in the case #SouthAfrica v. #Israel this Friday, January 26, 2024, at 1 PM.”

Meanwhile, the Israeli government has denied wrong doing and described South Africa’s petition as “absurd blood libel”

“On October 7, Hamas committed an act of genocide when it sent death squads to invade Israel with the mission of burning, beheading, torturing, mutilating, abducting, and raping as many Israelis as they could, as brutally as they could. It was a campaign of systematic extermination that they have vowed to continue until our country is destroyed.

“We are fighting to bring the October 7 monsters to justice because ‘Never Again’ is now.” Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy, in one of his responses to the allegations.

According to Palestine, however, Israel has killed approximately 22,000 people, with women and children making up 70% of the dead in Gaza.