Netanyahu denies South Africa’s accusations of genocide | EUROtoday
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Benyamin Netanyahu was fast to answer accusations of “acts of genocide” introduced by South Africa to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The Israeli Prime Minister affirmed, Sunday, December 31, that the conflict waged by his military within the Gaza Strip was “of unrivaled morality.”
“We will continue our defensive war, the justice and morality of which are without equal,” he continued on the opening of a gathering of his authorities, including that the Israeli military was appearing “in the most moral manner possible” within the Gaza Strip. The military “does everything to avoid harming civilians, while Hamas does everything to harm them and uses them as human shields,” added the Prime Minister.
“The intention to destroy the Palestinians”
The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial physique of the United Nations, introduced on Friday that South Africa had submitted a request to it accusing Israel of partaking in “acts of genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza”.
In its request, South Africa asserts that Israel’s “acts and omissions are of a genocidal character, as they are accompanied by the required specific intent […] to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza as part of the broader national, racial and ethnic group of Palestinians,” the ICJ, based in The Hague (Netherlands), said in a statement.
READ ALSO Israeli strikes on Gaza: Hamas discusses ceasefire in EgyptAccording to the country, “by its conduct, by its organs and brokers and different individuals and entities appearing on its directions or underneath its route, management or affect, with respect to the Palestinians of Gaza, Israel fails to satisfy its obligations underneath the Genocide Convention,” the ICJ mentioned.
“No, South Africa, it is not us who came to perpetrate a genocide, it is Hamas. He would kill us all if he could,” added Benjamin Netanyahu. “Everything you do is just wind, lies and vanity,” he added to the South African authorities.
Nearly 22,000 useless within the Gaza Strip
Israeli army operations within the Gaza Strip have killed 21,822 folks, largely ladies, kids and adolescents, because the begin of the conflict on October 7, based on the Hamas authorities.
READ ALSO Hamas-Israel conflict: the battle may final “many months”, based on the IDFThey had been launched in retaliation for an assault of unprecedented scale carried out by Hamas commandos which resulted within the deaths of round 1,140 folks in Israel, the bulk civilians, based on the newest official Israeli knowledge.
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