ICJ Delivers Hammer Blow To Israel
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🗓️ 29 May 2024
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That Israel is committing one of the great crimes of our age can no longer be denied.
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| 0:00.0 | The International Court of Justice, the World's Highest Court, has ordered Israel to immediately halt its military operations in Raffer, the last part of Gaza, which has not been reduced to near total destruction, where most of Gaza's pre-war population was forced to flee by the Israeli |
| 0:14.8 | state as it laid waste to their homes, their schools, their hospitals, their universities, |
| 0:20.1 | their mosques, their churches, their roads, their ancient monuments. |
| 0:24.0 | The Order is against its military offensive as well as any other action of the Raffer Governorates, |
| 0:29.0 | which may inflict on the Palestinian group in Gaza, conditions that could bring about is physical destruction in whole or in part. |
| 0:36.3 | In succinct terms, that is genocide. |
| 0:38.9 | They voted 13 to 2 with one of their judges voting against because they have a blanket opposition to any |
| 0:44.2 | involvement by international law in conflicts they define as political disputes, the other |
| 0:49.3 | being Israel's own judge. Now let's listen to the president of the court as he issued this |
| 0:54.5 | provisional order brought us a result of course of South Africa's general case |
| 0:59.2 | against Israel for the crime of genocide. |
| 1:02.2 | The court consider that in conformity with obligations under the Genocide Convention, |
| 1:08.9 | Israel must immediately hold its military offense and any other action in the |
| 1:14.4 | Rafah governors which may inflict on the Palestinian group in Gaza |
| 1:18.9 | conditions of life that could bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part. |
| 1:25.0 | The ICJ judgment notes that the situation has deteriorated since its first provisional |
| 1:30.8 | orders back at the end of January and that the humanitarian situation, |
| 1:34.5 | Gaza, is now disastrous. |
| 1:35.8 | As stated in its order of January 26, 2024, was a serious risk of deteriorating, has deteriorated, and has done so even further since the |
| 1:49.0 | court adopted its order of March 28, 2024. |
| 1:55.0 | In this regard, the court observes that the concern that it expressed in its decision communicate to the |
| 2:03.6 | departments on February 16, 2024 with respect to the developments in |
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