Legal advisors view the accusation as an implicit attack on Israel’s right to self-defense: “By asking the court to order the cessation of the military operation in Gaza, the applicant seeks to frustrate Israel’s inherent right to defend itself and to leave Israel defenseless.” to leave. “they say.
Israel accused South Africa on Friday submit to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ‘deeply distorted factual and legal image’ of reality of his war in Gaza.
During a hearing last Friday at the ICJ, the legal advisor to the Israeli Foreign Ministry said: What a Becker, has claimed that the “totality” of the case presented by South Africa “depends on a manipulative, decontextualized and deliberately constructed description of the reality of current hostilities” against Gaza.
Becker has warned about this “If there were any acts that could be described as genocidal, they were committed against Israel.”a statement accompanied by photos of the two hundred hostages taken by Hamas, as well as images of the attack, defined as “the largest mass murder calculated in a single day since the Holocaust”.
Moreover, he emphasized that Hamas “recorded its barbarity” in videos reproduced on social networks proudly showing the consequences of the attack on Israel.
“This act, sadistic and systematic as it may be, does not exempt Israel from its obligation to respect the law while defending its citizens on its territory. There is no doubt about that,” the Israeli agent confirmed, as he turned his gaze to the South African legal team. .
But he has assured that Israel “has the inherent right to take all legitimate measures to defend its citizens and secure the release of the hostages.
It believes that the precautionary measures requested by South Africa, including an order for Israel to suspend the military operation, “amount to an attempt to deny Israel its ability to fulfill its obligations to protect its citizens, the hostages and defend more than 100,000 domestic citizens.” displaced Israelis who have been unable to safely return to their homes since the Hamas attack. “By asking the court to order the cessation of the military operation in Gaza, the applicant is attempting to frustrate Israel’s inherent right to defend itself and leave Israel defenseless,” he said.
According to Israel, “the absurd consequence” of the complaint filed by South Africa “is that the International Court of Justice is trying to restrain Israel in its efforts to defend civilians against an organization that pursues genocidal objectives,” he added.
In summary, the Israeli adviser has argued that South Africa’s accusation lacks the fundamental basis that characterizes the crime of genocide, namely ‘the intention to destroy a people in whole or in part’, and that the fundamental reason for the Gaza campaign must in reality “protect the Israeli people from a ruthless enemy.”
The lawyer expressed himself in the same wayor Malcolm Shaw, is also part of the Israeli legal representation, which has argued that there is no evidence to justify a charge of genocide, a crime “unique in its malice, which stands out as the pinnacle of evil, the crime of all crimes, definitively in his malice’. .”
For this reason, Shaw, an expert in international law from the University of Leicester (United Kingdom), has appealed to the unique and exceptional characteristic of this crime to fairly assess what is happening in Gaza, because “if the If accusations of genocide become commonplace, the essence of this crime would ultimately be lost.
The court is expected to rule on the measures requested by South Africa later this month. The ICJ’s decisions are final and without appeal, but the court cannot enforce them.
Source: EITB
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