It's the Brian Layer Show on WNYC. Good morning again everyone.

You've been hearing on the news that yesterday and today

the International Court of Justice has been hearing South Africa's claim that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and hearing

Israel's defense.

For example, South Africa says Israel is targeting not just Hamas, but all Palestinians in Gaza and that the level of Israel's killing

is so extensive that nowhere in Gaza is safe. Israel presented its case

today. What they said going into it was that they're only killing as many

civilians as necessary to stop Hamas from staging more attacks like the one on October 7th,

an attack that Israel says was itself

with genocidal intent, which Israel emphasizes

was the most deadly attack anywhere on Jews since the Holocaust.

So we'll see how the court rules and to what effect.

Meanwhile, since yesterday's show, the US and Great Britain have become more directly involved in the

shooting war in the region, dropping bombs that reportedly struck at

the 60 targets in 16 locations around Yemen, aiming at the military capabilities of the Iran-backed

Huti rebels. President Biden said quote these strikes are in direct response to

unprecedented Huti attacks against international maritime vessels in the Red Sea,

including the use of anti-ship ballistic missiles

for the first time in history, unquote,

from President Biden.

We'll talk about both these developments now

with Julian Borger, the Guardian's World Affairs editor.

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