WATCH: ‘Israel intent on destroying Palestinian life’ – SA pushes for urgent ICJ action

it must take bolder action to make Israel stop the war in Gaza and protect civilians in the Palestinian enclave.

“I show that Israel’s genocidal acts against Palestinian in Rafah form part of a continuing escalating pattern of conduct across Gaza that provides persuasive and consistent evidence of Israel’s genocidal conduct. “Such language continues to be widespread alongside calls by Israeli soldiers on the ground to conquer, flatten, erase, destroy Gaza and after that Ramallah also. Israeli soldiers serving in Gaza continue to openly call for the deaths to Arabs declaring ‘may you burn alive’ that Gaza is burning, that we will burn your mother and that all of Shuja’iyya will burn in flames.

He displayed to the court a video of Israeli soldiers echoing such calls, including one of a group of soldiers yelling: “Let’s go and destroy Rafah.” Vusi Madonsela, South Africa’s ambassador to the Netherlands, in his opening address, said the gravity of Israel’s attacks requires the court’s “urgent and speedy proceedings to preserve the rights of the Palestinian people, a commitment that South Africa takes seriously”.

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