by Frank Wright, LifeSite News:
Presiding Judge Joan Donoghue said Friday that some allegations against Israel fall within the provisions of the Genocide Convention. The ruling orders Israel to ‘take all measures to prevent the commission of genocide to Gaza.’
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (LifeSiteNews) — The International Court of Justice – the highest court of the United Nations – delivered a preliminary ruling finding the charge of genocide against Israel to be “plausible” and refusing to dismiss the case as Israel has demanded.
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Presiding Judge Joan Donoghue said that some allegations against Israel fall within the provisions of the Genocide Convention. Donoghue, who is American, was one of fifteen judges who ruled Friday that “the state of Israel shall take all measures to prevent the commission of genocide to Gaza.”
Two additional judges, one from Israel and another from Uganda, ruled against the preliminary order.
The court will now hear evidence supporting the “plausible” charge of genocide against Israel in its treatment of the Palestinians, in a case which may take years to reach a verdict.
The case, brought by South Africa, is based on detailed evidence, including the public pronouncements of Israeli officials and quotations from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself.
In the original writ, the South African government charged that these pronouncements support an active policy which satisfies the definition of genocide.
The acts in question include killing Palestinians in Gaza, causing them serious bodily and mental harm, and inflicting on them conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction. The acts are all attributable to Israel, which has failed to prevent genocide and is committing genocide in manifest violation of the Genocide Convention…
The South African foreign minister responded following the ruling, pointing out that the case also touches upon those nations allied with and supporting Israel, which may see the U.S., U.K., and others named as complicit in acts of genocide following an eventual verdict.
Immediate response
Israel has responded by dismissing the case as an anti-Semitic “blood libel.” Lior Haiat, spokesperson of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said in a press release on X (formerly Twitter):
Israel rejects with disgust the blood libel spread by South Africa in its application to the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
South Africa’s claim lacks both a factual and a legal basis, and constitutes a despicable and contemptuous exploitation of the Court.
South Africa is cooperating with a terrorist organization that is calling for the destruction of the State of Israel.
He concluded with a counter-accusation of genocide against Hamas, before calling “on the International Court of Justice and the international community to completely reject South Africa’s baseless claims.”
