The Up First Show: War for Israel and Ukraine in the Context of Security and Security Issues in the 21-nucleon Era
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Also by a vote of 16 to 1, the court said that Israel must take “immediate and effective” measures to ensure the provision of urgently needed humanitarian aid and basic services.
Israel denied the charges of genocide and on Friday lashed out at the court. Mr. Netanyahu said it was “outrageous” for the judges even to hear the case, while Defense Minister Yoav Gallant — whose words the judges noted when discussing whether Israeli officials had made statements that constituted incitement to genocide — said his country did not need “to be lectured on morality.”
She said that statements from Israeli officials made South Africa’s case plausible. She said the situation in Gaza was getting worse.
This is only the second time a state has tried to litigate a charge of genocide against another. The human rights organization, The Gambia, took the country ofMyanmar to the UN’s top court, accusing it of genocide against the Muslim minority. In that case, the court approved emergency measures to protect Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority, which Myanmar ignored.
Israel’s assault on Palestinians in Gaza: a war against Israel and a “gravity for children,” says a South African lawyer
Health officials in Gaza say that more than 25,000 people there have been killed since Oct. 7, when Israel began a military operation to defeat Hamas. Israel launched the operation in response to a Hamas-led attack in which Israeli officials say around 1,200 people were killed and around 240 were taken to Gaza as hostages, many of whom are still captive.
Hassim presented a list of “genocidal acts” that she accused Israel of perpetrating against Palestinians in Gaza. She said that the “mass” and indiscriminate killing of Palestinian civilians, food blockades, and the wholesale destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system and infrastructure were included.
More than 1,400 families in Gaza have lost multiple family members since the start of the war, and 85% of Palestinians in Gaza have fled their homes.
It was deliberately inflicted. No one is getting away with anything. Not even a newborn baby. The scale of Palestinian child killings in Gaza is such that U.N. chiefs have described it as a ‘graveyard for children,’” Hassim said.
“Entire multi-generational families will be obliterated,” Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh, an Irish lawyer who is supporting South Africa’s legal team, told the court. She warned that more children would become orphans by Israel’s assault on the Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel in turn accused South Africa of presenting a “profound distorted” view of hostilities, arguing that it was “barely distinguishable” from that of Hamas.
Becker told the court that it was “impossible to understand the armed conflict in Gaza without appreciating the nature of the threat that Israel is facing.”
United States Assistance to the UNRWA Agency for Palestine in the Gefnerner-Yamada Operation on March 21st
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The Israeli military on Thursday ordered the evacuation of tens of thousands of Palestinians who had already been displaced and were sheltering in a United Nations vocational training center in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. Israel’s ground offensive has intensified in southern Gaza, where more than a million people have fled seeking safety.
The White House is sending William J. Burns, the director of the C.I.A., to Europe in an effort to advance negotiations over the release of hostages held in Gaza and a longer cease-fire. U.S. officials who described Mr. Burns’s trip said there is a new opening for talks because Israel appears willing to agree to a longer pause in fighting as part of any further hostage releases.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said the court ruled in favor of humanity and international law, but some people objected to not ordering a stop to the war.