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    Irish lawyer for South Africa accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza at UN court

    by Cillian Sherlock Jan 11, 2024 3 minutes
    Source: AP

    An Irish lawyer representing South Africa in its case alleging Israel is carrying out a genocide has said that “nobody is safe” in Gaza.

    Blinne Ni Ghralaigh KC told judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that the “horror of the genocide against the Palestinian people” was being live-streamed around the world in real time.

    She said the international community had failed the Palestinian people who were broadcasting their own destruction “in the desperate, so far, vain hope that the world might

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