And the world has watched and our political leaders have done absolutely nothing.

How will they explain this to their children, to their grandchildren?

How will they explain not only their inaction but their complicity?

And I think it's really, really important that across Europe,

millions of people have mobilized, have taken to the streets,

have protested at arms factories and have called for boycotts.

You're listening to EU Watchdog Radio. So, so, so, solidarity with was the deadline for South Africa to submit a detailed memorial against Israel to the International Court of Justice

to establish that Israel's military actions in Gaza amount to genocide.

Evidence was not missing. The South African legal submission amounts, in fact,

to more than 500 pages and exposes a pattern of mass casualties in Gaza, where nearly 43,000

Palestinians have been killed since October 23. South Africa filed the lawsuit at the end of December last year. At that time,

Palestinian victims were already amounting to 23,000, about 10,000 of which were children. More

than one year on, violence is escalating and expanding to neighboring countries such as Lebanon.

I am Marcella Via and you are listening to EU Watchdog Radio, a podcast by Corporate

Curve Observatory and Counterbalance. To give you a bit of background, the lawsuit filed by

South Africa by the end of 2003,

accused Israel of violating the 1948 Genocide Convention.

Being both Israel and South Africa, signatories of the UN Genocide Convention gave the International Court of Justice jurisdictions to rule over the dispute. It is not a surprise that it was South Africa, a country from the Global South with a past marked by

colonization and brutal apartheid to stand up against Israel. South Africa was backed by countries

including Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia, Namibia, Malaysia.

But what about the EU?

In this episode, I spoke with Niam Nivrian from TNI and my colleague, Bram Franken,

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