UN’s top court hears genocide case against Israel over Gaza war
The UN’s top court has opened hearings in a case in which South Africa is demanding an emergency suspension of Israel's military campaign in Gaza, where it says Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians.
In its application to the court, South Africa described Israel’s actions in Gaza since the Hamas attack of 7 October as “genocidal in character because they are intended to bring about the destruction of a substantial part of the Palestinian national, racial and ethnical group”.
It added: “The acts in question include, causing them serious bodily and mental harm, and inflicting on them conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction.”
