From New York, this is Democracy Now.

Genocide are never declared in advance.

But this court has the benefit of the past 13 weeks of evidence that

shows incontrovertively a pattern of conduct and related intention that justifies a plausible claim of genocidal

acts.

Is Israel committing genocide in Gaza?

That's the question today before the International Court of Justice in the Hague,

which has begun two days of arguments in South Africa's historic genocide case against Israel, will air excerpts and go to Johannesburg

and Jerusalem for response.

Then an exclusive new report by the Guardian reveals how carbon emissions from Israel's war on

Gaza will have an immense effect on the climate crisis. We'll speak with Guardian

reporter Nina Lachani and Hadil Ihmaiz head of the Climate Change Office of the Palestinian Environmental Quality Authority.

There are three predicted scenarios for the climate in Palestine and all the three scenarios

predicted that the change of climate is going to be unprecedented and end

dangerously impacted the water security and food security with occupation

if it exacerbates a problem of climate change and make it worse for the future generations.

All that and more coming up. and make it worse for the future generations.

All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman.

The International Court of Justice in The Hague has begun hearing two days of arguments in South Africa's historic genocide case against Israel.

South Africa's accused Israel of violating the 1948 UN Genocide Convention saying

its three-month assault on Gaza is being conducted with the intent

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