South Africa presented “a deeply distorted factual and legal picture. The entire case is based on a deliberately decontextualized and manipulative description of the reality of current hostilities.” This is how Tal Becker, a member of the Israeli defense team, opened the session in which Israel responds to the accusation of genocide before the Hague court. Haaretz reports it. Becker described the “massacres, mutilations, rapes and kidnappings on a large scale” carried out by Hamas on October 7, saying that “if there were acts of genocide, they were committed against Israel.”
On October 7, Becker played a recording in an Israeli kibbutz in which a Hamas terrorist boasted about killing Jews. It also showed an interview in which a Hamas official, Ghazi Hamad, vowed that the attack on Israel was just the beginning and vowed to launch “a second, a third, a fourth” attack until the country is “annihilated ” be.
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South Africa's application should be rejected “for what it is: a pamphlet”. Tal Becker, representative of Israel, said this in The Hague in response to South Africa's allegations. “Hamas,” he denounced, “has systematically and illegally integrated its military structure into schools, mosques, hospitals and other sensitive locations.” “This is a planned and abominable method of war. Israel – he added – is fighting against the inhumanity of Hamas.” Becker then said, referring to South Africa's accusation of genocide, that “the core element of this complaint, namely the intention to destroy a people in whole or in part, is completely missing.”
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“South Africa only told half the storyThis was said by lawyer Malcom Shaw, who defended Israel at the hearing in The Hague, quoted by the media. Furthermore, “If there were a case and not that the Israeli forces have violated some rules of the conflict.” “Then,” he added, “the solid and independent Israeli legal system would respond to it in due course.” “But “There is no intention to destroy the people (of Gaza, editor’s note) in whole or in part,” Shaw reiterated. as such.” “The statements of the soldiers – he explained – do not represent the line of behavior: what comes from the Chief of Staff of the Army clearly shows the intention to prevent and reduce civilian losses and to adhere to the rules of war.”
Bitter controversy between Israel and Türkiye after President Recep Tayyp Erdogan sided with the arguments put forward by South Africa in The Hague. “The President of Turkey, the state responsible for the Armenian Genocide, who thought the world would watch in silence – Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz responded to Israel of genocide.” “We know you well,” Katz continued and turned to Erdogan. – Let us not forget the Armenian genocide or the Kurdish massacres. You have destroyed a people. We defend ourselves against your barbarian friends.”
The UN human rights office said today that Israel has repeatedly violated international humanitarian law since it launched its offensive in Gaza in response to the Hamas attack on October 7th. Portal writes it online. “We have repeatedly highlighted Israel's repeated failures to uphold the fundamental principles of international humanitarian law: distinction, proportionality and precaution when carrying out attacks,” said Elizabeth Throssell, spokesperson for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Meanwhile, Israeli army operations continue in the center and south of the Gaza Strip. According to the military spokesman, the soldiers killed “around 20 terrorists in the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza,” including “a commander of the Hamas Nukhba unit.” The same thing happened – according to the same source – in Khan Yunis, in the southern part of the Palestinian enclave, where “a Hamas air force military building was hit.” Among the dead – explained the military spokesman – was “another commander of the Nukhba unit who was involved in the October 7 massacre.”
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