Gaza Genocide Unmasked By Irish Lawyer's Historic Speech At The ICJ
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🗓️ 13 January 2024
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At The Hague , Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh KC delivered an unbelievably powerful - condemning the Israeli state for the utter horror it has unleashed against Gaza. Here it is in full - everyone needs to hear it.
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| 0:00.0 | Madam President, members of the court, there is an urgent need for provisional measures to protect |
| 0:07.5 | Palestinians in Gaza from the irreparable prejudice caused by Israel's violations of the Genocide Convention. |
| 0:16.9 | The United Nations Secretary General and its chiefs described the situation in Gaza variously as a crisis of humanity, a living hell, a bloodbath, |
| 0:29.1 | a situation of utter deepening and unmatched horror where an entire population is besieged and under attack denied |
| 0:38.8 | access to the essentials for survival on a massive scale. |
| 0:44.6 | As the United Nations Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs stated last Friday, |
| 0:49.6 | and I quote, |
| 0:51.8 | Gaza has become a place of death and despair. Families are sleeping in the |
| 0:57.9 | open as temperatures plummet. Areas where civilians were told to relocate for their safety have come under relentless |
| 1:05.8 | attack, bombardment. Medical facilities are under relentless attack. The few hospitals that are partially functional are overwhelmed with trauma |
| 1:16.2 | cases, critically short of all supplies and inundated by desperate people seeking safety. A public health disaster is unfolding. |
| 1:27.0 | Infectious diseases are spreading in overcrowded shelters as sewers spill over. Some 180 women are giving birth daily amidst this |
| 1:38.6 | chaos. People are facing the highest levels of food insecurity ever recorded. |
| 1:47.0 | Salmon is around the corner. |
| 1:52.0 | For children in particular, the last 12 weeks have been traumatic. |
| 1:56.0 | No food, no water, no school, nothing but the terrifying sounds of war day in and day out. Gaza has simply become |
| 2:06.2 | uninhabitable. Its people are witnessing daily threats to their very existence. |
| 2:17.0 | While the world watches on." The court has heard of the horrific death toll and of the more than 7,000 Palestinian men, women, |
| 2:25.8 | and children reported missing, presumed dead or dying slow excruciating deaths trapped under the rubble. |
| 2:35.6 | Reports of field executions and torture and ill treatment are mounting, |
| 2:40.2 | as our images of decomposing bodies of Palestinian men, women and children left unburied where they were killed, |
| 2:47.0 | some being picked upon by animals. |
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